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The short ton
Short ton

The short ton is a unit of weight equal to 2,000 Pound . In the United States it is often called simply ton without distinguishing it from the metric ton or the long ton ; rather, the other two are specifically noted....
 (S/T) is a unit of weight equal to 2,000 lb
Pound (mass)

The pound or pound-mass is a Units of measurement of massused in the Imperial unit, United States customary units and other systems of measurement....
 (around 907.18474 kg). In the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 it is often called simply ton without distinguishing it from the metric ton (or tonne, 1,000 kilograms) or the long ton
Long ton

Long ton is the name for the unit called the "ton" in the avoirdupois or Imperial unit system of measurements, as formerly used in the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth of Nations countries....
 (2,240 pounds, roughly 1,016 kg); rather, the other two are specifically noted. There are, however, some U.S. applications for which unspecified tons normally means long tons (for example, Navy ships) or metric tons (world grain production figures).

Both the long and short ton are defined as 20 hundredweight
Hundredweight

Centum weight or Hundred weight / hundredweight is a unit of measurement for mass in U.S. customary units and was historically used in the Imperial system in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations....
s, but a hundredweight is 112 pounds (which is equal to 8 stone
Stone (weight)

The stone is a unit of mass. It is part of the Imperial unit used in the UK, and formerly used in most Commonwealth of Nations countries. It is equal to 14 pounds , which is equivalent to approximately 62.3 Newtons on Earth, or about 6.35 kilograms ....
) in the Imperial system (long or gross hundredweight) and 100 pounds in the U.S. system
United States customary units

The United States Customary System for units of measurement, also known in the United States as English, Imperial or standard units, is the primary and most commonly-used system of units of measurement in the United States....
 (short or net hundredweight).

The spelling tonne is from Gallic
Gallic

Gallic is an adjective that may refer to:*Gaul, from which the name derives, a region of Europe roughly corresponding to modern France, but also comprising parts of modern northern Italy, Belgium, western Switzerland and parts of the Netherlands and Germany....
 and French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
.






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The short ton
Short ton

The short ton is a unit of weight equal to 2,000 Pound . In the United States it is often called simply ton without distinguishing it from the metric ton or the long ton ; rather, the other two are specifically noted....
 (S/T) is a unit of weight equal to 2,000 lb
Pound (mass)

The pound or pound-mass is a Units of measurement of massused in the Imperial unit, United States customary units and other systems of measurement....
 (around 907.18474 kg). In the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 it is often called simply ton without distinguishing it from the metric ton (or tonne, 1,000 kilograms) or the long ton
Long ton

Long ton is the name for the unit called the "ton" in the avoirdupois or Imperial unit system of measurements, as formerly used in the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth of Nations countries....
 (2,240 pounds, roughly 1,016 kg); rather, the other two are specifically noted. There are, however, some U.S. applications for which unspecified tons normally means long tons (for example, Navy ships) or metric tons (world grain production figures).

Both the long and short ton are defined as 20 hundredweight
Hundredweight

Centum weight or Hundred weight / hundredweight is a unit of measurement for mass in U.S. customary units and was historically used in the Imperial system in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations....
s, but a hundredweight is 112 pounds (which is equal to 8 stone
Stone (weight)

The stone is a unit of mass. It is part of the Imperial unit used in the UK, and formerly used in most Commonwealth of Nations countries. It is equal to 14 pounds , which is equivalent to approximately 62.3 Newtons on Earth, or about 6.35 kilograms ....
) in the Imperial system (long or gross hundredweight) and 100 pounds in the U.S. system
United States customary units

The United States Customary System for units of measurement, also known in the United States as English, Imperial or standard units, is the primary and most commonly-used system of units of measurement in the United States....
 (short or net hundredweight).

The spelling tonne is from Gallic
Gallic

Gallic is an adjective that may refer to:*Gaul, from which the name derives, a region of Europe roughly corresponding to modern France, but also comprising parts of modern northern Italy, Belgium, western Switzerland and parts of the Netherlands and Germany....
 and French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
. The term applied to the barrel of the largest size. In Old English the spelling was tunne, "cask
Barrel

A barrel or cask is a hollow Cylinder container, traditionally made of wood staves and bound with iron hoops. The term "barrel" typically refers to wooden vessels that are small enough to be moved by hand, up to puncheon size ....
". A full cask about a metre high could easily weigh a metric tonne, since the volume of the antiquated British wine cask tun
Tun (unit)

The tun is an old English unit of wine cask volume, holding about 1 E-1 m?, almost a cubic metre. Etymologically it is identical to the ton, a unit of mass or weight....
 is defined as 954 litres which for water (density = 1) amounts to as many kilograms. In the context of heraldry
Heraldry

Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of devising, granting, and blazoning Coat of arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms....
, the term 'tun' is also recognized -- again meaning a very large barrel, such as a brewer
Brewer

Brewer may refer to:*brewer, someone who makes beer .*The Brewer Spectrophotometer, a ground-based spectrophotometer measuring ozone column, sulfur dioxide column, UV radiation and the aerosol optical depth...
 might use. For example, tuns are part of the blazon
Blazon

In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of, most often, a coat of arms or flag, which enables a person to construct or reconstruct the appropriate image....
 of the brewer's guild
Guild

File:Windsorguildhall.jpgA guild is an association of artisan in a particular trade. The earliest guilds were formed as confraternities of workers....
 of London, England.

A short ton–force is 2,000 pounds-force
Pound-force

The pound-force or simply pound is a Units of measurement of force....
 (8,896 newton
Newton

The newton is the International System of Units SI derived unit of force, named after Isaac Newton in recognition of his work on classical mechanics....
s).

See also

  • Metric tonne (M/T)
  • Long ton
    Long ton

    Long ton is the name for the unit called the "ton" in the avoirdupois or Imperial unit system of measurements, as formerly used in the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth of Nations countries....
     (L/T)