'Centner' definitions:
Definition of 'centner'
(from WordNet)
noun
A unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms [syn: hundredweight, metric hundredweight, doppelzentner, centner]
noun
In some European countries: a unit of weight equivalent to 50 kilograms
noun
A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds [syn: hundredweight, cwt, short hundredweight, centner, cental, quintal]
Definition of 'Centner'
From: GCIDE
- Centner \Cent"ner\, n. [Cf. G. centner a hundred-weight, fr. L. centenarius of a hundred, fr. centum a hundred.]
- 1. (Metal. & Assaying) A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The metallurgists use a weight divided into a hundred equal parts, each one pound; the whole they call a centner: the pound is divided into thirty-two parts, or half ounces; the half ounce into two quarters; and each of these into two drams. But the assayers use different weights. With them a centner is one dram, to which the other parts are proportioned. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The commercial hundredweight in several of the continental countries, varying in different places from 100 to about
- 112 pounds. [1913 Webster]