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Home Dictionary Name: foot poundFoot pound
A unit of energy or work being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against the force of gravity through a vertical distance of one foot...
Dynam
A unit of measure for dynamical effect or work a foot pound See Foot pound...
Pound
Pound [fr. pund, Sax.; pondo, Lat.], a certain weight, consisting in troy weight of 12, in avoirdupois of 16 ounces; the sum of 20s, said to be so called because in Saxon times 240 pence weighed a pound. See Lambard, 219. A pound Scots, anglice, a shilling.A penfold, an inclosure, a prison in which beasts seized for rent (see DISTRESS) or caught on the land of another (see DAMAGE FEASANT) may be kept until they are replevied or redeemed. It is either overt, i.e., open overhead; or covert, i.e., in a close. See 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 12, whereby no distress of cattle may be driven more than three miles from where it was taken, and not more than 4d. may be taken for any one whole distress impounded; the (English) Distress for Rent Act, 1737, s. 10, empowering any person lawfully distraining for rent to impound the distress on the premises chargeable with the rent.By s. 7 of the (English) Protection of Animals Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 27) penalties are imposed for impounding or confining any...
Calorie
The unit of heat according to the French standard the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram sometimes one gram of water one degree centigrade or from 0deg to 1deg Compare the English standard unit Foot pound...
Erg
The unit of work or energy in the C G S system being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter the amount of energy expended in moving a body one centimeter against a force of one dyne 981 dynes exert the same force as a one gram mass in the earths gravitational field One foot pound is equal to 13560000 ergs The absolute Joule is equivalent to 107 ergs which are equivalent to 02389 gram calories at 15deg C See also mechanical equivalent of heat under equivalent...
joule
A unit of work which is equal to 107 ergs the unit of work in the C G S system of units and is equivalent to one watt second the energy expended in one second by an electric current of one ampere in a resistance of one ohm also called the absolute joule It is abbreviated J or j The international joule is slightly larger being 1000167 times the absolute joule The absolute joule is approximately equal to 0737562 foot pounds 0239006 gram calories small calories and 372506 x 10 7 horsepower hours and 0000948451 Btu...
Breach of pound
Breach of pound. See POUND....
flat foot
A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground also the deformity usually congential exhibited by such a foot splayfoot...
Footed
Having a foot or feet shaped in the foot as a footed candlestick...
Footing
Ground for the foot place for the foot to rest on firm foundation to stand on...
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