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British thermal units

British thermal units is the plural of British thermal unit.

Meaning of British thermal unit

Noun

British thermal unit (plural British thermal units)

  1. A unit of energy that is equivalent to the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at a particular temperature (there are several different precise definitions) and a pressure of one atmosphere.

Questions about British thermal units

What is British thermal units the plural of?
British thermal units is the plural of British thermal unit.

Words near British thermal units in the dictionary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: British thermal units (page history and authors); British thermal unit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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