An example of using "tons" as a unit in life?
Mass unit, metric ton is equal to 1000 kg: ~ digits. ~ kilometers (one kilometer per ton of goods).
American unit of mass or weight. Britain is British tons, and America is American tons.
Short for registered ton.
A unit for calculating the volume of a ship, one ton is equal to 2.83 cubic meters (100 cubic feet).
Tons, derived from the weight of 1 m3 of water at standard atmospheric pressure and 4 degrees Celsius. Life tons are mostly used to measure the weight of larger items.
Although it is not one of the basic units of the International System of Units (SI), it conforms to the decimal system and can be used with SI system. Ton is also the largest international standard unit of measurement.
When the quantity is huge, it is often measured in multiples of thousands, such as thousands of tons and millions of tons. In Chinese, it is also measured in multiples of 10,000 tons, such as 10,000 tons and 100 million tons. In Britain and the United States, metric tons are often written as tone or MT (metric tons) in English to distinguish them from English metric tons.