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 Britain and Commonwealth countries in contexts where confusion might arise between the metric ton and the traditional English tons of 2000 or 2240 pounds.
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Translations [ edit ]
unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms
Arabic: طُنّ مِتْرِيّ ( ṭunn mitriyy )
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 , グラムトン , トン (ja) , 屯 (ja)
Khmer: តោន (km) ( taon ) , តូន (km) ( toon )
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Malay: tan metrik , tan
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)