horsepower

horsepower englannista suomeksi

1. hevosvoima

0. Substantiivi

1. hevosvoima

2. vääntövoima

horsepower englanniksi

1. Power derived from the motion of a horse.

2. {{quote-text|en|year=2003|author=Gavin Weightman|title=What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us|page=57

3. A nonmetric unit of power (''symbol'' hp) with various definitions, for different applications. The most common of them is probably the horsepower, approximately equal to 745.7 watts.

4. 2012 March 22nd, David Blockley, ''Engineering: Short Introductions|A Very Short Introduction'' (309), (w), (ISBN), chapter 2: “The age of gravity – time for work”, page 20:

In the past, before the widespread adoption of SI units, the work that engines were capable of doing was compared with the work that horses could do – hence the term ‘horsepower’. Various people came up with various equivalencies, but the modern agreed definition is that 1 horsepower is 746 joules per second or 746 watts.

5. A metric unit (''symbol'' often PS from the German abbreviation), approximately equal to 735.5 watts.

6. Strength.

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