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foot-poundals

foot-poundals is the plural of foot-poundal.

Meaning of foot-poundal

Noun

foot-poundal (plural foot-poundals)

  1. (dated) A unit of work done when by a force of one poundal moves through a distance of one foot
    • He […] made abstruse calculations as to the flight of balls off sloped club-faces, as to the foot-poundals of energy exercised by one muscle or the other, and as to theories of spin.1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not... (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 65

Questions about foot-poundals

What is foot-poundals the plural of?
Foot-poundals is the plural of foot-poundal.

Words near foot-poundals in the dictionary

  1. foot-post
  2. foot-pound
  3. foot-pound-second
  4. foot-pound-seconds
  5. foot-poundal
  6. foot-poundals
  7. foot-pounds
  8. foot-rule
  9. foot-scamp
  10. foot-scamps
  11. foot-slog

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