foot-pound

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foot-pound

noun foot-pounds

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.

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@misc{foot_pound_2026,
  title = {foot-pound},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/foot-pound},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}