Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

displacement ton

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English

Syllables: dis-place-men-t -ton
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A unit approximately equal to the volume of a long ton weight of seawater, used in reckoning the displacement of ships, and equal to 35 U.S. or Imperial cubic feet.

Inflected Forms

displacement tons (plural)

Questions

What does displacement ton mean?: A unit approximately equal to the volume of a long ton weight of seawater, used in reckoning the displacement of ships, and equal to 35 U.S. or Imperial cubic feet.

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