A British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds
English: long ton, ton, gross ton
Bahasa: tan
tonEnglish
tone, ton, MT, gross ton, inflect
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Noun
A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
English: short ton, ton, net ton
Bahasa: tan
(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
English: timbre, timber, quality, tone
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4 more noun senses
A musical interval of two semitones
English: tone, whole tone, step, whole step
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A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms
English: metric ton, MT, tonne, t
Bahasa: kiloton
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The elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
English: tonicity, tonus, tone
Bahasa: larutan hipertonik
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The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
English: tone
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Verb
Vary the pitch of one's speech
English: tone, inflect, modulate
Bahasa: meredakan, melengkung, mengalunkan
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