Akademik
foot-pound
Energy
expended, or
work
done, in raising a
mass
of 1
pound
a
height
of 1
foot
vertically against gravitational
force
.
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foot-pound
-'pau̇nd
n
,
pl
foot-pounds
a unit of work equal to the work done by a force of one pound acting through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force
Medical dictionary
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2011
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