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foot-pound

foot-pound noun: foot⋅pound-force, a unit of work, energy, or torque.

Noun

foot-pound (plural foot-pounds)

  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, R. K. Kirkland, “Into the Mountains on the Festiniog Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 450

foot-pound meaning in Tamil

foot-pound in Tamil

அடியிறாத்தல்

Forms of foot-pound

pluralfoot-pounds

Questions about foot-pound

What does foot-pound mean?
Foot-pound means foot⋅pound-force, a unit of work, energy, or torque.
What is foot-pound in Tamil?
Foot-pound in Tamil is அடியிறாத்தல். See Foot-pound meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is foot-pound?
Foot-pound is a noun.
What is the plural of foot-pound?
The plural of foot-pound is foot-pounds.

Words near foot-pound in the dictionary

  1. foot-pace
  2. foot-paces
  3. foot-pad
  4. foot-pads
  5. foot-post
  6. foot-pound
  7. foot-pound-second
  8. foot-pound-seconds
  9. foot-poundal
  10. foot-poundals
  11. foot-pounds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foot-pound (page history and authors); foot-pound (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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