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metric horsepower

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English

Syllables
met-ric horse-pow-er
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The power needed to raise a mass of 75 kilograms against the Earth's gravitational force over a distance of one metre in one second, equivalent to around 735.5 watts.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

metric horsepowers (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

mechanical horsepower tax horsepower

Synonyms

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Questions

What does metric horsepower mean?
The power needed to raise a mass of 75 kilograms against the Earth's gravitational force over a distance of one metre in one second, equivalent to around 735.5 watts.

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