| TON | a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds |
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| TON | a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds |
| TON | (music) having tonality |
| TON | employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words |
| TON | a language in which different tones distinguish different meanings |
| TON | the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes |
| TON | the system of tones used in a particular language or dialect of a tone language |
| TON | any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music |
| TON | a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color |
| TON | (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages |
| TON | the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) |
| TON | the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author |