ton mile

English

Noun

ton mile (plural ton miles)

1. A unit of measure expressed in number of short tons moved over a specific distance in miles.
   • 1963 September, “French Railways' quarter-century of expansion”, in Modern Railways, page 189:

     Nevertheless, since 1938 the French National Railways' passenger traffic has risen by 60 per cent and freight traffic, in terms of ton-miles, 130 per cent.

Related terms

• ton mileage

References

• “ton-mile”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• Lemniot, Montiel, Tomline