donkeypower
nounEtymology
From donkey + power, based on horsepower.
Definitions
A unit of power equal to 250 watts, or about one-third of a horsepower.
- How to talk about units of power less than 1 horsepower? Use a smaller creature, of course. Roughly 1/3rd of a single unit of horsepower—or roughly 250 watts—is now labelled one donkeypower.
The neighborhood
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No curated loop yet for donkeypower. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA