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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of the US Customary and British Imperial systems of measurement based on the foot, the pound, and the second as the fundamental units of length, mass, and time.
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- adjective Of or relating to a
measurement system that uses thefoot as a measure ofdistance , thepound as a measure offorce , and thesecond as a measure oftime . Abbreviations: ft-lb-s,fps , f.p.s. - noun A unit of
mechanical power , equal to that required to raise one pound through a distance of one foot in one second.
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Likewise, despite the metric unit of packaging being in force for the last half-century, some companies use metric-convertibles of old foot-pound-second units to pack medicines.
hernesheir commented on the word foot-pound-second
What a concept.
December 27, 2011