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foot-pound

/foot-pound/US // ˈfʊtˈpaʊnd //

英尺磅,呎磅,足磅

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Physics.

    • : a foot-pound-second unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one pound when its point of application moves through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force. Abbreviation: ft-lb

Examples

  • Together, they crossed over the International Bridges on foot into Juarez to conduct some business.

  • In the classic skillset of piloting, mental acuity, and its coordination with hand and foot movements, is equally vital.

  • Wearing the right foot of a chicken was considered good luck.

  • It made sense with so many suspects at hand, less so with the tower entrance separated from them by a forty foot wall.

  • Marabella, now licking her lollipop and tapping her foot, appears unfazed.

  • The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.

  • I find myself chained to the foot of a woman, my noble Cornelia would despise!

  • We had now approached closely to the foot of the mountain-ranges, and their lofty summits were high above us in mid-air.

  • We see the whole land, even if but at a distance, instead of being limited merely to the spot where our foot treads.

  • But there is a pinnacle of human success and of human opinion, on which human foot was never yet permitted to rest.