metric ton

English

Alternative forms

• MT

Noun

metric ton (plural metric tons)

1. (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

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.

Synonyms

• ton (often proscribed), tonne, t, T (chiefly UK), megagram (uncommon), millier (archaic)

Derived terms

• metric fuckton

Translations

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)