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–noun

1.	a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms (220.5 avoirdupois pounds).

2.	hundredweight.

[Origin: 1425–75; late ME < ML quintāle < Ar qinṭār weight of a hundred pounds, prob. ≪ L centénārius. Cf. centenary, kantar, kilderkin

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hun·dred·weight Audio Help (hŭn'drĭd-wāt') Pronunciation Key
n. pl. hundredweight or hun·dred·weights Abbr. cwt

A unit of weight in the U.S. Customary System equal to 100 pounds (45.36 kilograms). Also called cental, short hundredweight.
A unit of weight in the British Imperial System equal to 112 pounds (50.80 kilograms). Also called quintal.

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quin·tal Audio Help (kwĭnt'l) Pronunciation Key
n. Abbr. ql. or q.

A unit of mass in the metric system equal to 100 kilograms.
See hundredweight.

[Middle English, a unit of weight, from Old French, from Medieval Latin quintāle, from Arabic qinṭār, from Late Greek kentēnarion, from Late Latin centēnārium (pondus), hundred(weight), from Latin centēnārius, of a hundred; see centenary.]

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quintal

"a weight of a hundred pounds," c.1470, from O.Fr. quintal, from M.L. quintale, from Ar. quintar, from Late Gk. kentenarion, from L. centenarius "containing a hundred" (see centenary).

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quintal
noun
1.	a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms
2.	a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds [syn: hundredweight]

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Quintal

Hun"dred\, n. [OE. hundred, AS. hundred a territorial division; hund hundred + a word akin to Goth. ga-ra?jan to count, L. ratio reckoning, account; akin to OS. hunderod, hund, D. hondred, G. hundert, OHG. also hunt, Icel. hundra?, Dan. hundrede, Sw. hundra, hundrade, Goth. hund, Lith. szimtas, Russ. sto, W. cant, Ir. cead, L. centum, Gr. ?, Skr. [,c]ata. [root]309. Cf. Cent, Century, Hecatomb, Quintal, and Reason.]

1. The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C.

With many hundreds treading on his heels. --Shak.

Note: The word hundred, as well as thousand, million, etc., often takes a plural form. We may say hundreds, or many hundreds, meaning individual objects or units, but with an ordinal numeral adjective in constructions like five hundreds, or eight hundreds, it is usually intended to consider each hundred as a separate aggregate; as, ten hundreds are one thousand.

2. A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen.

Hundred court, a court held for all the inhabitants of a hundred. [Eng.] --Blackstone.

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Quintal

Ken"tle\, n. [From Quintal.] (Com.) A hundred weight; a quintal.

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