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Foot-pound

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  1. 1
    foot⋅pound-force, a unit of work, energy, or torque. abbreviation, proscribed

    "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."

  2. 2
    a unit of work equal to a force of one pound moving through a distance of one foot wordnet

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