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foot-pound foot-pound
foot-pound abbr. ft-lb, unit of work or energy in the customary English gravitational system; it is the work done or energy expended by a force of 1 pound acting through a distance of 1 foot. It is equal to 1.356 joules . The term foot-pound is also used to designate a unit of torque that... Read more
pound pound
pound abbr. lb, unit of either mass or force in the customary system of English units of measurement . Two different pounds of mass are defined, one in the avoirdupois system of units and one in the Troy system. The avoirdupois pound (lb avdp) is now defined in terms of the kilogram , the... Read more
Roscoe Pound Roscoe Pound
Roscoe Pound 1870-1964, American jurist, b. Lincoln, Nebr. He studied (1889-90) at Harvard law school, but never received a law degree. Pound was a prominent botanist as well as a jurist, and spent his early years in Nebraska practicing and teaching law, simultaneously serving as director of the... Read more
horsepower horsepower
horsepower unit of power in the English system of units. It is equal to 33,000 foot-pounds per minute or 550 foot-pounds per second or approximately 746 watts. The term horsepower originated with James Watt, who determined by experiment that a horse could do 33,000 foot-pounds of work a... Read more
Ezra Loomis Pound Ezra Loomis Pound
Ezra Loomis Pound 1885-1972, American poet, critic, and translator, b. Hailey, Idaho, grad. Hamilton College, 1905, M.A. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1906. An extremely important influence in the shaping of 20th-century poetry, he was one of the most famous and controversial literary figures of the... Read more
shilling shilling
shilling a former British coin and monetary unit equal to one twentieth of a pound or twelve pence; the word is recorded from Old English (in form scilling), and was traditionally used in emphatic or rhetorical statements when the speaker wished to be understood as reckoning or accounting for the... Read more
ounce ounce
ounce a unit of weight of one sixteenth of a pound avoirdupois (approximately 28 grams); a unit of one twelfth of a pound troy or apothecaries' measure, equal to 480 grains (approximately 31 grams). Recorded from Middle English, the word comes via Old French from Latin uncia ‘twelfth part... Read more
gram gram
gram abbr. g, unit of mass equal to 0.001 kilogram , the basic unit of mass in the metric system . The gram is the unit of mass in the cgs system . It is approximately equal to 0.035 avoirdupois ounce, or 0.0022 pound; a 1-pound mass equals about 453.6 grams.... Read more
English units of measurement English units of measurement
English units of measurement principal system of weights and measures used in a few nations, the only major industrial one being the United States. It actually consists of two related systems—the U.S. Customary System of units, used in the United States and dependencies, and the British... Read more
Plastics Plastics
PLASTICS PLASTICS. Perhaps the most prevalent manufactured material in society today is plastics. About 200 billion pounds of plastics are produced annually in the world, 90 billion pounds in the United States alone. In the 1967 movie The Graduate, the title character, played by Dustin Hoffman,... Read more

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