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ft-lb

ft-lb is the abbreviation 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 ft-lb

pluralft-lbs
pluralft-lb

Questions about ft-lb

What is ft-lb the abbreviation of?
Ft-lb is the abbreviation of foot-pound.

Words near ft-lb in the dictionary

  1. FSVO
  2. fsw
  3. FSWs
  4. ft
  5. FT%
  6. ft-lb
  7. ft-lbs
  8. ft.
  9. FTA
  10. FTAA
  11. FTAs

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