Centner

[sentnә]

(noun.) in some European countries: a unit of weight equivalent to 50 kilograms.

Editor: Upton--From WordNet

(n.) A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts.

(n.) The commercial hundredweight in several of the continental countries, varying in different places from 100 to about 112 pounds.

Editor: Wilma

n. a common name on the Continent for a hundredweight.

Edited by Gail