English-Thai Dictionary
centner
N หน่วง น้ำหนัก 100 กิโลกรัม หน่วย น้ำหนัก 50 กิโลกรัม ใน หลาย ประเทศ ของ ยุโรป
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CENTNER
n.In metallurgy and assaying, a docimastic hundred; a weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts. 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.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CENTNER
Cent "ner, n. Etym: [Cf. G. centner a hundred-weight, fr. L.centenarius of a hundred, fr. centum a hundred. ]
1. (Metal. & Assaying )
Defn: A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts.
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.
2. The commercial hundredweight in several of the continental countries, varying in different places from 1 to about 112 pounds.
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