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dwt

dwt is the abbreviation of deadweight ton.

Meaning of deadweight ton

Noun

deadweight ton (plural deadweight tons)

  1. A long ton (2,2240 pounds), as used to measure of a ship's carrying capacity, including bunker oil, fresh water, ballast water, crew, and provisions.
    Synonyms:
    DWT

Noun capitalized: DWT

DWT

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of dwt (“deadweight ton(nage)”).
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of discrete wavelet transform.

Forms of dwt

alternative formd.w.t.
alternative formd. w. t.
alternative formD.W.T.
alternative formD. W. T.
alternative formDWT

Origin of dwt

From Latin denarius, penny.

Questions about dwt

What is dwt the abbreviation of?
Dwt is the abbreviation of deadweight ton.
What part of speech is dwt?
Dwt is a noun.

Words near dwt in the dictionary

  1. DWP
  2. DWR
  3. DWRs
  4. DWS
  5. DWSL
  6. dwt
  7. dwt.
  8. DWTP
  9. DWTPs
  10. DWTS
  11. DWV

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dwt (page history and authors); DWT (page history and authors); deadweight ton (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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