Ton vs Quintal - What's the difference?
ton | quintal |
A unit of weight (mass) equal to 2240 pounds (a long ton) or 2000 pounds (a short ton) or 1000 kilograms (a metric ton).
A unit of volume; register ton.
In refrigeration and air conditioning, a unit of thermal power defined as 12,000 BTU/ (about 3.514 kW or 3024 kcal/h), originally the rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of one short ton of ice per day at 32 °F (0 °C).
(colloquial, hyperbole) A large amount.
(slang) A speed of 100 mph.
(slang) One hundred pounds sterling.
(cricket) One hundred runs.
(darts) One hundred points.
Fashion, the current style, the vogue.
* Thackeray
Fashionable society; those in style.
A measure of weight originally equal to a hundred pounds; later, a hundredweight.
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, page 204:
One hundred kilograms.
As nouns the difference between ton and quintal
is that ton is a unit of weight (mass) equal to 2240 pounds (a long ton) or 2000 pounds (a short ton) or 1000 kilograms (a metric ton) while quintal is a measure of weight originally equal to a hundred pounds; later, a hundredweight.ton
English
(wikipedia ton)Etymology 1
Variant of .Noun
(en noun)- I’ve got a ton of work to do.
- I've got tons of work to do.
Synonyms
* (large amount) heap, load, pile * (one-hundred runs) century * See alsoDerived terms
* displacement ton * long ton * measurement ton * metric ton (tonne) * register ton * short tonEtymology 2
From (etyl) , from (etyl) tonus.Noun
(-)- (Byron)
- If our people of ton are selfish, at any rate they show they are selfish.
Etymology 3
Anagrams
* ----quintal
English
Noun
(en noun)- In one import license alone, the merchant in question was instructed to bring in 13,000 quintals of alum, which, snapped up by industries in England and the Low Countries, would yield the king a cool £8,666 13s 4d.
