[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- Any of various units of weight equal to approximately one hundred pounds, especially such units used in Germany and the Baltic Sea region. Compare "hundredweight".

- A unit of weight used in assaying metals, typically ranging between three and five grams. Also more fully "assay (or docimastic) centner" and variants.


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Origin:
late Middle English. From early modern German centener, centner (German Centner, (now usually) Zentner) weight of a hundred pounds, miniature unit of weight used in assaying metals from classical Latin centēnārium weight of a hundred pounds