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SHP

SHP is the abbreviation of shaft horsepower.

SHP is the initialism of special high performance.

Meaning of shaft horsepower

Noun

shaft horsepower (uncountable)

  1. In an engine, the power measured in horse power delivered to a rotating shaft, which could be in a turbine, or transmission.
    Synonyms:
    shp

Forms of SHP

pluralSHPs

Questions about SHP

What is SHP the abbreviation of?
SHP is the abbreviation of shaft horsepower.

Words near SHP in the dictionary

  1. shox
  2. shoyu
  3. shoyu-tai
  4. shoyus
  5. shozoku
  6. SHP
  7. shpadoinkle
  8. Shpanberg
  9. Shpaniv
  10. shpeal
  11. shpeals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: SHP (page history and authors); shaft horsepower (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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