Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Synonyymit
- (tiede)imperial horsepower
- (tiede)mechanical horsepower
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (literally, uncountable) Power derived from the motion of a horse.
- A nonmetric unit of power with various definitions, commonly the mechanical horsepower, approximately equal to 745.7 watts.
- Metric horsepower, a metric unit approximately equal to 735.5 watts.
- (figurative, uncountable) Strength, performance capability, specs, or similar.
Esimerkit
- 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.
- political horsepower
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | horsepower |
| Monikko | horsepowers |