metric ton

English

Noun

metric ton (plural metric tons)

1. A tonne, a unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms.
   • 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

• Often used to avoid confusion between the tonne and the (long) ton, which are almost equal (about 2204.6 pounds and exactly 2240 pounds respectively).

Synonyms

• tonne
• megagram
• MT (U.S. abbreviation)

Translations

unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms

• Arabic: طُنّ مِتْرِيّ‏‎ (ṭunn mitriyy)
• Breton: tonenn (br) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公噸 (zh), 公吨 (zh) (gōngdūn or gōngdùn)

• Dutch: ton (nl) m
• Finnish: tonni (fi)
• French: tonne (fr) f
• Galician: tonelada métrica f
• German: Tonne (de) f

• Greek: τόνος (el) m (tónos)
• Italian: tonnellata (it) f
• Japanese: メトリックトン, グラムトン
• Malay: tan metrik
• Portuguese: tonelada métrica f
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: tonelada métrica f
• Swedish: ton (sv)