quintalとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪntəl/

名詞

quintal (複数形 quintals)

1. (historical except India) A measure of weight originally equal to a hundred pounds; later, a hundredweight.

   Synonym: hundredweight

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, page 204:

     In one import license alone, the merchant in question was instructed to bring in 13,000 quintals of alum, which, snapped up by industries in England and the Low Countries, would yield the king a cool £8,666 13s 4d.

2. One hundred kilograms.

使用する際の注意点

The quintal is not standardized in the International System of Units. In modern use it usually corresponds to 100 kilograms; before the introduction of the metric system the value varied according to the weight of the local pound. A French quintal was 49.951 kg, a Portuguese quintal 58.75 kg, a Spanish quintal 46.014 kg and an Italian quintale 32.67 kg (in Milan).