What is a hundredweight?
A hundredweight, abbreviated as cwt, is a unit of weight commonly used in the imperial system of measurement.
There are two variations on hundredweights; the long hundredweight primarily used in the United Kingdom and the short hundredweight used in the United States.
In the imperial system, a long hundredweight is equal to 112 pounds or approximately 50.8 kilograms. The term "hundredweight" is derived from the fact that it originally represented the weight of 100 pounds of a particular commodity.
The short hundredweight is equal to 100 pounds or 45.35 kilograms.
What are pounds?
Pounds are a unit of weight commonly used in the United States and some other countries, where 1 pound is equivalent to approximately 0.4536 kilograms. It is often used to measure smaller items or quantities, such as groceries, personal weight, or packages.
We provide a conversion calculator on this site for pounds to kilograms.
