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kilopound

noun

Etymology

From kilo- + pound.

  1. derived from *(s)pend-✻
  2. derived from pondō
  3. inherited from *pundą✻
  4. inherited from *pund✻
  5. inherited from pund
  6. inherited from pound
  7. prefixed as kilopound — “kilo + pound”

Definitions

  1. A non-SI unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA