quintal

1. a unit of weight equal to 100 pounds

2. a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms

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quintal

[′kwint·əl]

(science and technology)

hundredweight

(mechanics)

metric centner

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Quintal

(in Russian, tsentner), a subsidiary unit of weight equal to 100 kg. The Russian abbreviation is ts; in countries where the Latin alphabet is used, the abbreviation is q. In certain countries, a unit equal to 100 pounds is called a quintal. In the English system of measures, a unit equal to 100 pounds is called a short hundredweight, or (chiefly in Great Britain) a cental.

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Mr Mohamed addressed Ms Quintal directly: "I did not know you were the Africa programme co-ordinator.

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Prices again touched a high of Rs 1,600 per quintal by the end of April this year.

Staring at a dry run

Ms Quintal says he was very hostile to Ms Mumo when he interrogated her but luckily left the room after receiving a phone call.Mr Mohamed addressed Ms Quintal directly: "I did not know you were the Africa programme co-ordinator.

Quintal: Tanzania authorities accused Muthoki Mumo of betraying black people

Quintal tweeted before 1am on Tuesday morning that she and her colleague had been released.

Tanzania releases journalists Muthoki Mumo, Angela Quintal

Sugar ready M-30 and S-30 prices traded lower by Rs 50 each to settle at Rs 3,560-3,750 and Rs 3,550-3,740 per quintal.

Sugar prices end lower on ample stocks

Among cash crops, the MSP of cotton has been raised by ` 50 to ` 4,100 per quintal for long staple and ` 3,800 per quintal for medium staple cotton for 2015- 16.

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On January 31, guar gum was trading at Rs 13,788 per quintal on the National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX).

In the dumps

The abundant harvests in Brazil and Colombia have pushed down the price of grain, which could reach less than $100 a quintal, reports Laprensa.com.ni (Oct.

Drop in coffee prices

He also stressed the recent presidential measure to subsidize until August 31,2009, hard wheat at a rate of respectively 15 dinars the quintal and 10 dinars the quintal for tender wheat , barley and triticale.

Tunisia: wheat crop yields 10,7 million quintals

Under which the MSP of wheat has been increased to Rs 1,840 per quintal from Rs 1,450, MSP of gram increased to Rs 4,620 from Rs 3,175 per quintal, and MSP of mustard increased to Rs 4200 from Rs 3100 per quintal.

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figure By THE CITIZEN DAR ES SALAAM,The two Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) staff who had been detained in Tanzania, Ms Angela Quintal and Muthoki, Mumo have safely left the country, the watchdog has said.The journalists were detained on Wednesday by Tanzanian immigration officials while on a reporting mission for the CPJ.

Freed journalists have safely left Tanzania, CPJ says

CPJ's sub-Saharan Africa representative Muthoki Mumo, a Kenyan, and Angela Quintal, CPJ's Africa program coordinator were picked from their hotel in Dar es Salaam, taken to a secret location and questioned for several hours before being released.

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