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kintal

kintal is the alternative form of quintal.

Meaning of quintal

Noun (1)

quintal (plural quintals)

  1. (historical) Synonym of hundredweight, 100 or 112 English or American pounds.
    • In one import license alone, the merchant in question was instructed to bring in 13,000 quintals of alum, which, snapped up by industries in England and the Low Countries, would yield the king a cool £8,666 13s 4d.2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 204
    Synonyms:
    hundredweight, 100 or 112 English or American pounds
  2. (historical) Various other similar units of weight in other systems.
  3. An unofficial metric unit equal to 100 kg.

Noun (2)

quintal (plural quintals)

  1. A grammatical number referring to five (or more) things.
    • Furthermore, if the number-incorporated pronouns are analyzed as grammatically marked for number, distinct grammatical categories for trial, quadral and quintal must be posited.2002, Kearsy Annette Cormier, Grammaticization of Indexic Signs: How American Sign Language Expresses Numerosity, page 69

See all 6 meanings of quintal

Forms of kintal

pluralkintals

Questions about kintal

What is kintal the alternative form of?
Kintal is the alternative form of quintal.

Words near kintal in the dictionary

  1. Kinston
  2. kinswoman
  3. kinswomanly
  4. kinswomen
  5. Kinta
  6. kintal
  7. kintals
  8. Kintamani
  9. Kintamanis
  10. kintar
  11. kintars

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