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Webster 1913 Edition

Centner

Cent′ner

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Noun.
[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.
☞ 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 100 to about 112 pounds.

Webster 1828 Edition

Centner

CENTNER

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Noun.
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.

Definition 2024

centner

centner

English

Noun

centner ‎(plural centners)

  1. A unit of weight with different actual definitions in parts of Germany and Scandinavia, typically 100 local pounds.

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Etymology

Probably from Lower German Zentner, comparable to the hundredweight

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