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Meaning of PONCELET

 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ponce"let\, n. [After Jean Victor Poncelet, French
engineer.] (Physics)
A unit of power, being the power obtained from an expenditure
of one hundred kilogram-meters of energy per second. One
poncelet equals g watts, when g is the value of the
acceleration of gravity in centimeters.
 

 

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