hunˈdredweight noun

1. 1/20 of a ton, or 112lb avoirdupois (50.80kg; also called long hundredweight)
2. Orig and still in US, 100lb (45.3kg; also called short hundredweight)
3. 50kg (also called metric hundredweight; abbrev cwt)

Chiltern Hundreds

A district of Buckinghamshire, whose stewardship is a nominal office under the Crown, the temporary acceptance of which by a member of parliament enables him or her to vacate his or her seat

great or long hundred

1. Usually 120
2. Sometimes some other number greater than ten tens (eg of herrings, 132 or 126)

Hundred Years' War

The struggle between England and France, from 1337 down to 1453

not a hundred miles from (informal)

At, very near

Old Hundred see under old

one, two, etc hundred hours

One, two, etc o'clock (from the method of writing hours and minutes 1.00, 2.00, etc)

the Hundred Days

The time between Napoleon's return from Elba and his final downfall after Waterloo (the reign lasted exactly 95 days, March 20-June 22, 1815)

metre¹ or (US) meter /mēˈtər/

1. A base SI unit, the unit of length (symbol m), orig intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from pole to equator
2. Later the distance between two marks on a platinum-iridium bar kept in Paris
3. Currently defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of a specific fraction of a second
4. By British Act of Parliament (1963) 1 yard equals 0.9144 metre

metric /metˈrik/ adjective

Relating to the metre, or to the metric system

metˈrically adverb

metˈricate transitive verb and intransitive verb

To convert or change to the metric system

metricāˈtion noun

meˈtre-kilˈogram-secˈond adjective

Relating to a system of scientific units for length, mass and time (abbrev MKS), now largely superseded by the SI

meˈtre-kilˈogram-secˈond-amˈpere adjective

Relating to the Giorgi system of scientific units for length, mass, time and current (abbrev MKSA)

metric hundredweight see under hundred

metric system noun

The SI or any decimal system of weights and measures

metric ton see under tonne