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footpound

footpound is the alternative form 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

Forms of footpound

pluralfootpounds

Questions about footpound

What is footpound the alternative form of?
Footpound is the alternative form of foot-pound.

Words near footpound in the dictionary

  1. footpoints
  2. footpole
  3. footpoles
  4. footpost
  5. footposts
  6. footpound
  7. footpounds
  8. footprint
  9. footprinted
  10. footprinting
  11. footprints

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