Found 2 items, similar to centner.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: centner centner n 1: a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms [syn: hundredweight, metric hundredweight, doppelzentner] 2: in some European countries: a unit of weight equivalent to 50 kilograms 3: a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds [syn: hundredweight, cwt, short hundredweight, cental, quintal]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Centner 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]