English [ edit ]
Alternative forms [ edit ]
metric ton (plural metric tons )
( chiefly US ) A unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms , about 2204.6 pounds avoirdupois .
2006 , Edwin Black , chapter 2, in Internal Combustion [1] :One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.
Usage notes [ edit ]
Infrequently used in Commonwealth countries (including Britain) in contexts where confusion might arise between the metric ton and the traditional English tons of 2000 or 2240 pounds, in which case tonne is preferred.
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Translations [ edit ]
unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms
Arabic: طُنّ مِتْرِيّ ( ṭunn mitriyy )
Hijazi Arabic: طَنّ m ( ṭann )
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Breton: tonenn (br) f
Bulgarian: метричен тон m ( metričen ton )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 公噸 / 公吨 ( gung1 deon1 )
Mandarin: 公噸 / 公吨 (zh) ( gōngdūn or gōngdùn ) , 噸 / 吨 (zh) ( dūn, dùn )
Czech: tuna (cs) f
Dutch: ton (nl) m
Esperanto: tuno
Finnish: tonni (fi)
French: tonne (fr) f
Galician: tonelada métrica f , tonelada (gl) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Tonne (de) f
Greek: τόνος (el) m ( tónos )
Hebrew: טון (he) m ( ton )
Italian: tonnellata (it) f
Japanese: メトリックトン (ja) , グラムトン (ja) , トン (ja) , 屯 (ja)
Khmer: តោន (km) ( taon ) , តូន (km) ( toon )
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Malay: tan metrik , tan (ms)
Malayalam: ടൺ (ml) ( ṭaṇ )
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: tona (pl) f
Portuguese: tonelada métrica f , tonelada (pt) f
Russian: метри́ческая то́нна f ( metríčeskaja tónna ) , то́нна (ru) f ( tónna )
Slovak: tona f
Spanish: tonelada métrica f , tonelada (es) f
Swedish: ton (sv)
Thai: ตัน (th) ( dtan )
Turkish: ton (tr) sg
Vietnamese: tấn (vi)