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foot-pound en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, proscribed) foot⋅pound-force, a unit of work, energy, or torque.
    • If the F.R. ever expands its administration to include a statistician, his figure for net foot-pounds of elbow grease per trailing ton-mile are going to look quite impressive. 1958 July 14, R. K. Kirkland, “Into the Mountains on the Festiniog Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 450:

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Relateds

ft-lb · foot-pound-second · foot-poundal · lb-ft