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The young tigress poised in combat stance on the icy roof must have weighed a centner and a half.

The word centner, on the other hand, is simply a Germanicized form of its original Latin name centenarius.

Richard Centner, a spokesman for the agency, said that Cummins engines were frequently cited in those grant requests.

Quintal (centner)

He began by delivering 8,000 cannonballs, followed by gunpowder (500 centner), rope and timber, soon receiving a permanent contract to provide the delivery annually.

Many European languages have come to translate both the Imperial and US hundredweight as their cognate form of quintal or centner.

David J. Centner, Highway Toll Administration's president, says he believes that the time is right for a nationwide toll payment system for rental cars.

Mr. Centner said that his company's system could work in other regions, too - say, on Denver's E-470 beltway, which uses EXpressToll transponders.

National Hurricane Centner forecaster James Franklin said, "Confidence at the later ranges [of the forecast track] was unusually low", because of wide divergences between computer models.

Young Elizabeth Winthrop (Amy Centner) tells the local doctor that he should wash his instruments because there might be tiny, invisible animals living on them that could spread disease.

The 'quintal' or 'centner' is a historical unit of mass with many different definitions in different countries, but usually it is 100 base units of mass, e.g. pound (mass)s.

In English both terms quintal and centner were once alternative names for the hundredweight and thus defined either as 100 lb (exactly 45.359237 kg) or as 112 lb (about 50.84 kg).

The quintal or centner, from Latin centenarius ("hundredlike"), is a historical unit of mass in many countries which is usually defined as 100 base units of either pounds or kilograms.