foot-poundal
Noun
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Noun
foot-poundal
- (dated) A unit of work done when by a force of one poundal moves through a distance of one foot
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not..., Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 65:
- 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..., Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 65:
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