displacement ton

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noun Nautical.

a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2,240 pounds (1,016 kilograms) or 35 cubic feet (1 cubic meter) of seawater.

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Words nearby displacement ton

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How to use displacement ton in a sentence

But there's a ton of value for me in my background and my history, and losing it would be a shame.
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Some of the things that Jay lied about to the cops actually make a ton of sense.
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This spatial displacement reveals your thirst for freedom, your desire for openness and to break with the protest novel.
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For those in the resource world, every ton of junk that goes into a landfill represents wasted energy.
Garbage In, Power Out|The Daily Beast|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Red squirrels cache the pinecones (saving the bears a ton of work).
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The price of salt at one period of the long Peninsular war rose to £30 per ton, being retailed in Birmingham at 4l.
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If you think the fly-wheel is not sufficiently heavy for his engine, add half a ton more to the ring.
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At Thetford the cost may be put at from $20 to $25 per ton, the latter probably being nearer the average.
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Bergin dug a big hole behind that ole vacant shack of hisn, and buried about a ton of tin cans.
Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher|Eleanor Gates
A ton of silk goods is worth from ten to fifteen thousand dollars.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866|Various

British Dictionary definitions for displacement ton

displacement ton

noun

the full name for ton 1 (def. 6)

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