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poundal

noun

Etymology

From pound + -al.

  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. suffixed as poundal — “pound + al”

Definitions

  1. A unit equal to the force needed to accelerate a mass of one pound at a rate of one foot…

    A unit equal to the force needed to accelerate a mass of one pound at a rate of one foot per second per second.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for poundal. 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