TONNE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tonne mean? 

• TONNE (noun)
  The noun TONNE has 1 sense:

1. a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms

  Familiarity information: TONNE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TONNE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

metric ton; MT; t; tonne

Hypernyms ("tonne" is a kind of...):

metric weight unit; weight unit (a decimal unit of weight based on the gram)

Meronyms (parts of "tonne"):

quintal (a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms)

 Context examples 

The world currently produces around 300 million tonnes of plastic waste every year — equivalent to the weight of the entire human population — according to UN Environment.

(Scientists develop biodegradable plastic from cassava starch, SciDev.Net)

The global consumption of antibiotics by food animals, estimated at 131,109 tonnes in 2013, is projected to reach 200,235 tonnes by 2030.

(Eat less meat to cut drug resistance, SciDev.Net)

Most of the gas escapes, but some is pulled into a disc swirling into the star at a rate of 3000 tonnes per second.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)

By analysing the measurements collectively, they found that trees growing in wetland areas of the Amazon subject to seasonal flooding emit 21.2 million tonnes of methane gas to the atmosphere every year.

(Amazon trees are major source of methane emission, SciDev.Net)

About half of the 700 million tonnes of rice harvested annually across the world is subjected to parboiling.

(Parboiling husked rice reduces arsenic content, SciDev.Net)

Plastic pollution is a devastating problem for marine life, with the UN Environment Programme estimating that about 8 million tonnes of plastic waste is dumped into the seas every year.

(Microplastic pollution adds to oceans’ problems, scidev.net)

In 2016, production reached 396 million tonnes, says a report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) published in March this year.

(Scientists develop biodegradable plastic from cassava starch, SciDev.Net)

Trees growing in floodplains surrounding the Amazon river emit up to 20 million tonnes of methane gas (CH4) to the atmosphere every year.

(Amazon trees are major source of methane emission, SciDev.Net)

WWF’s projections indicate that if the increase in production is not contained, the world will have to deal with about 550 million tonnes of the material by 2030.

(Scientists develop biodegradable plastic from cassava starch, SciDev.Net)

About two-thirds of this total — 6.3 billion tonnes — has been discarded as waste, while 2.6 billion tonnes is still in use, according to a study published in 2017 in Science Advances.

(Scientists develop biodegradable plastic from cassava starch, SciDev.Net)