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foot-pounds

foot-pounds is the plural of foot-pound.

Meaning of foot-pound

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

Questions about foot-pounds

What is foot-pounds the plural of?
Foot-pounds is the plural of foot-pound.

Words near foot-pounds in the dictionary

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

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