TON

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.
2. isim The long ton of 2240 pounds (about 1016 kg), 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
3. isim The metric ton of 1000 kilograms (about 2205 lb), 10 quintals of 100 kilograms each.
4. isim The measurement ton of (US) 40 or (UK) 42 cubic feet (about 1.1 or 1.2 m³).
5. isim The register ton of 100 cubic feet (about 2.83 m³).
6. isim Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.

   “I’ve got a ton of work to do.”

7. isim A unit of thermal power equal to 12,000 BTU/h (about 3.5 kW), approximating the idealized rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of 1 short ton of ice per day at 0°C.

   “Their main problem is that they somehow believe that a 12-ton unit can handle this entire building.”

8. isim 100 pounds sterling.
9. isim 100 points.
10. isim 100 runs.
11. isim A speed of 100 mph (160 km/h).

    “Speed along the lane / Do a ton or a ton and twenty-five”

12. isim Fashion, the current style, the vogue.

    “A clergyman cannot be high in state or fashion. He must not head mobs, or set the ton in dress.”

13. isim Fashionable society; those in style.

    “[S]he thought herself incapable of being flattered by the attentions of a man she despised, because he was the reigning idol of the ton […].”

14. isim Synonym of tunny, particularly the common tunny or horse mackerel.
15. isim Initialism of threshold odor number.