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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as poundal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Physics) A unit of force equal to the force which, acting for one second, will give a pound a velocity of one foot per second; -- proposed by J. D. Everett, an English physicist.

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