tonne
/tʌn
/noun
Another term for metric ton.This is a record as the average yield in the State is around four tonnes per hectare....
- We then visited this to discover that out of the six hundred tonnes, only about fifty tonnes were left by then.
- Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of cod were taken out each year, building up great fortunes for those that fished it.
Origin
Late 19th century: from French; compare with ton1.