Short Hundredweight
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short hundredweight
[′shȯrt ′hən·dərd‚wāt] McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Short Hundredweight
(also cental), a unit of weight in the English system of weights and measures, equal to 100 pounds, or 45.359 kg.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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