Definition of Doppelzentner

1. Noun. A unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms.

Exact synonyms: Centner, Hundredweight, Metric Hundredweight
Generic synonyms: Metric Weight Unit, Weight Unit
Terms within: Centner
Group relationships: Quintal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Doppelzentner

dopiazas
dopier
dopiest
dopily
dopiness
dopinesses
doping
doping in sports
dopings
doplic
dopped
doppelbock
doppelbocks
doppelganger
doppelgangers
doppelzentner (current term)
dopper
doppers
doppie
doppies
dopping
doppings
doppio
doppleganger
doppler
doppler broadening
doppler effect
doppler shift
dopplerite
dopplerites

Literary usage of Doppelzentner

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Trusts, Pools, and Corporations by William Zebina Ripley (1916)
"This is in addition to the regular (and almost nominal) tax of sixty pfennige per doppelzentner levied upon the total output of potash, whose proceeds go to ..."

2. Revolution in Measurement: Western European Weights and Measures Since the by Ronald Edward Zupko (1990)
"... (France) doppelzentner (Germany) Drachma (France) Description silver, precious (1.275 g) equal to 1/3 gros, metals, and jewels 1/24 once, or 1/192 marc; ..."

3. Revolution in Measurement: Western European Weights and Measures Since the by Ronald Edward Zupko (1990)
"... (France) doppelzentner (Germany) Drachme (France) Description silver, precious (l.275 g) equal to l/3 gros, metals, and jewels l/24 once, ..."

4. A Scientific German Reader by Herbert Zabriskie Kip (1916)
"Dyas, Permian system Dynamik,/. dynamics dynamisch, dynamic Dynamit, n. dynamite dz = doppelzentner, m. double hundredweight (= 100 kg. ..."

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