Tons
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Tons can refer to:
- Tons RiverTons RiverThe Tons is the largest tributary of the Yamuna and flows through Garhwal region in Uttarakhand, touching Himachal Pradesh. The Tons thrust is named after this river....
, a major river in India - the plural of tonTonThe ton is a unit of measure. It has a long history and has acquired a number of meanings and uses over the years. It is used principally as a unit of weight, and as a unit of volume. It can also be used as a measure of energy, for truck classification, or as a colloquial term.It is derived from...
, a unit of mass, force, volume, energy or power - short tonShort tonThe short ton is a unit of mass equal to . In the United States it is often called simply ton without distinguishing it from the metric ton or the long ton ; rather, the other two are specifically noted. There are, however, some U.S...
, 2,000 pounds, used in the United States - long tonLong tonLong ton is the name for the unit called the "ton" in the avoirdupois or Imperial system of measurements, as used in the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth countries. It has been mostly replaced by the tonne, and in the United States by the short ton...
, 2,240 pounds, used in countries such as United Kingdom which use the imperial system - metric ton, also known as tonne, 1,000 kilograms, or 2,204.6 pounds
- slang: for many of something, "there were a ton of people at the party"
- Tons (band), an American rock band