• (n.) A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts. • (n.) The commercial hundredweight in several of the continental countries, varying in different places from 100 to about 112 pounds. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/centner/
Cent'ner noun [ Confer German centner a hundred-weight, from Latin centenarius of a hundred, from centum a hundred.] 1. (Metal. & Assaying) A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts. » The metallurgists use a weight divided into... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/44
(in several European countries) a unit of weight of 50 kilograms, equivalent to 110.2 pounds avoirdupois. · a unit of 100 kilograms. Found on https://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/centner