hundredusight (abbreviation: cwt ), formerly also known as centum weight or quintal , is English, imperial, and units of weight or US mass of various values. The present value continues to differ between American and imperial systems. Both values ​​are distinguished in American English as "short" and "long" classes and in English English as "cental" and "one hundred weight imperial".
- Weight short or cental of 100 pounds (45,359,237 kg) is used in the US and Canada.
- Weight length or one hundred stone weight of 8 stones (112 pounds or 50,802345 kg) used unofficially in the imperial system but its use for trade in the UK is terminated by Schedule 1, Section VI of the Weight and Measurement Act of 1985.
Under both conventions, there are 20 hundred weights in a ton, yielding "short ton" of 2000 pounds and "ton length" of  £ 2240.
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History
Hundred people have many different values. In England around the year 1300, different "hundreds" ( centem in Latin Medieval) was defined. The Weights and Measures Act of 1835 formally assigns a hundred current weight of 112 pounds. Use in trading sizes by "cental", "hundredusight", or "quintal" has now been banned in the UK under the Weight and Size Act. 1985.
The United States and Canada came to use the term "one hundred classes" to refer to a 100 pound unit. This measure was specifically prohibited from British use - on the risk of being sued for fraud - by the Weight and Size Act in 1824 but, in 1879, the act was legalized under the name "cental" in response to the legislative pressures of importing British merchants wheat and tobacco from the United States.
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Use
One hundred short weights are commonly used in the US in the sale of livestock and some grains of cereals and vegetable oil, paper, and concrete additives and on some commodities on futures exchanges.
Several decades ago, commodities weighed in weight form include cattle, fodder, fertilizer, coal, some industrial chemicals, other industrial materials, and so on. However, due to the increase in metrics in most English-speaking countries, it is now under-utilized. Church bell speakers use this unit in general, although church bell manufacturers are increasingly moving to metric systems.
Older blacksmith ansmil often stamped with a three-digit number indicating its total weight in the weight of one hundred, one-quarter weight (28 lb), and pound. Thus, an anvil labeled "1.1.8" will have a weight of 148 lb (112 lb 28 lb 8 lb).
See also
- Short and long hundred hundred and 120, respectively
- A hundred, medieval size units
References
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