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short ton

U.S. unit of mass (2,000 pounds or 907.18474 kg)
Intangible Unit of Mass Q469356

Facts

7 properties
Instance of
unit of mass, UCUM derived unit[2]
Conversion to SI unit
907.18474 kg[5]
Conversion to standard unit
14.0M (0.89–907.2B, n=16)[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]
Measured physical quantity
mass[3]
NCI Thesaurus ID
C198400[4]
Unit symbol
tn. sh., T, tn[21][22][23]
Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent
wd:Q469356 p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?source; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. ?item p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?target; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. BIND(?source / ?target as ?value)[20]
🏷️ Also known as
en ton en short ton en US ton en U.S. ton en US t ar طن قصير ar طن أمريكي cs malá tuna cs krátká tuna de Tn sh. de Short ton de amerikanische Tonne es tonelada corta fa تن کوچک fi lyhyt tonni fi short ton fi ton fi tonni fi U.S. ton fi US ton
🔖 Identifiers · 14
Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID
151073484
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/short-ton
Freebase ID
/m/02md_f
Interlingual Index ID
i108962
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
59645953
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
1627492
Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID
ton-Short
QUDT dimension ID
A0E0L0I0M1H0T0D0
QUDT unit ID
TON_SHORT, TON_US
UCUM code
[ston_av]
UMLS CUI
CL1914190
Wolfram Language unit code
"ShortTons"
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WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
13743634-n
Wurvoc.org measure ID
ton-short

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Summary

short ton is an unit of mass[1].

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  1. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Measured physical quantity → mass
    Conversion to standard unit → 907.1847 kilogram, 2,000 pound, 32,000 ounce +13
    Conversion to SI unit → 907.18474 kilogram
    Instance of → unit of mass, UCUM derived unit
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: UMLS CUI: CL1914190"
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