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1. The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship. 2. The cubical content or burden of a vessel, or vessels, in tons; or, the amount of weight which one or several vessels may carry. See Ton, n. . A fleet . . . with an aggregate tonnage of 60,000

Additional info about word: TONNAGE

1. The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship. 2. The cubical content or burden of a vessel, or vessels, in tons; or, the amount of weight which one or several vessels may carry. See Ton, n. . A fleet . . . with an aggregate tonnage of 60,000 seemed sufficient to conquer the world. Motley. 3. A duty or impost on vessels, estimated per ton, or, a duty, toll, or rate payable on goods per ton transported on canals . 4. The whole amount of shipping estimated by tons; as, the tonnage of the United States. See Ton. Note: There are in common use the following terms relating to tonnage: Displacement. Register tonnage, gross and net. Freight tonnage. Builders' measurement. Yacht measurement. The first is mainly used for war vessels, where the total weight is likely to be nearly constant. The second is the most important, being that used for commercial purposes. The third and fourth are different rules for ascertaining the actual burden-carrying power of a vessel, and the fifth is for the proper classification of pleasure craft. Gross tonnage expresses the total cubical interior of a vessel; net tonnage, the cubical space actually available for freight-carrying purposes. Rules for ascertaining these measurements are established by law.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TONNAGE)

• Capacity
• Space
• size
• volume
• tonnage
• calibre
• ability
• faculty
• compatability
• cleverness
• talents
• magnitude
• parts
• competency
• compressiveness
• accommodation

Related words: (words related to TONNAGE)

• VOLUMENOMETRY
  The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer.
• VOLUMENOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.
• ABILITY
  The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then
• TONNAGE
  1. The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship. 2. The cubical content or burden of a vessel, or vessels, in tons; or, the amount of weight which one or several vessels may carry. See Ton, n. . A fleet . . . with an aggregate tonnage of 60,000
• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• VOLUMETRIC
  Of or pertaining to the measurement of volume. Volumetric analysis , that system of the quantitative analysis of solutions which employs definite volumes of standardized solutions of reagents, as measured by burettes, pipettes, etc.; also, the
• VOLUMETER
  An instrument for measuring the volumes of gases or liquids by introducing them into a vessel of known capacity.
• ACCOMMODATION
  1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." Sir M. Hale. 2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
• MAGNITUDE
  That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness. 3. Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like. 4. Greatness; grandeur. "With plain, heroic magnitude of mind." Milton.
• SPACE BAR; SPACE KEY
  A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.
• VOLUMETRICAL
  Volumetric. -- Vol`u*met"ric*al*ly, adv.
• CAPACITY
  Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency. Capacity for heat, the power of absorbing
• SPACELESS
  Without space. Coleridge.
• SPACEFUL
  Wide; extensive. Sandys.
• CLEVERNESS
  The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness. Syn. -- See Ingenuity.
• FACULTY
  The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college. Dean of faculty. See under Dean. -- Faculty of advocates. See
• VOLUMESCOPE
  An instrument consisting essentially of a glass tube provided with a graduated scale, for exhibiting to the eye the changes of volume of a gas or gaseous mixture resulting from chemical action, and the like.
• VOLUME
  Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone. Atomic volume, Molecular volume , the ratio of the atomic and molecular weights divided respectively by the specific gravity of the substance in question. -- Specific volume , the quotient
• VOLUMED
  1. Having the form of a volume, or roil; as, volumed mist. The distant torrent's rushing sound Tells where the volumed cataract doth roll. Byron. 2. Having volume, or bulk; massive; great.
• ADORABILITY
  Adorableness.
• AMENABILITY
  The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• SUITABILITY
  The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
• EQUABILITY
  The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray.
• DEFLAGRABILITY
  The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.
• COMMENSURABILITY
  The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.
• IMMEABILITY
  Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness. Immeability of the juices. Arbuthnot.
• INEVITABILITY
  Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford.
• EFFUMABILITY
  The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. Boyle.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• TAMABILITY
  The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness.
• INSOCIABILITY
  The quality of being insociable; want of sociability; unsociability. Bp. Warburton.
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• INSURMOUNTABILITY
  The state or quality of being insurmountable.
• REPEALABILITY
  The quality or state of being repealable.
• INHERITABILITY
  The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson.
• MUTABILITY
  The quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation. Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the world