Quintal

Quick meaning: Quintal is a noun meaning An unofficial metric unit equal to 100 kg.

Meaning

An unofficial metric unit equal to 100 kg.

More Meanings

1. (grammar) A grammatical number referring to five (or more) things.
2. (grammar) Referring to five (or more) things; of, in or relating to the quintal grammatical number.
3. (historical) Synonym of hundredweight, 100 or 112 English or American pounds.
4. (historical) Various other similar units of weight in other systems.

Example Sentences

In sign languages, on the other hand, trial, quadral and quintal forms such as found in UgSL are not uncommon.

In UgSL, we find a complete set of forms for dual, trial, quadral and quintal in several paradigmatic contrasts.

Moreover, trial, quadral and quintal forms are given an identical status as number values in the pronominal domain.

What Table 4 does not show is the possibility of even "quadral" and "quintal" forms, like yufopela 'you four', 'the four of you', yufaipela 'you five', 'the five of you'.

Word Forms

• quintals

Synonyms for quintal

Depending on context, synonyms include hundredweight, cental, centner, cwt.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include centner, cwt, hundredweight, cental, quintale, kintal.

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