See metric ton in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "dtan",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "ตัน"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"singular"
],
"word": "ton"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "tấn"
}
],
"word": "metric ton"
}
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