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horsepower
horsepower is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The power which a horse exerts. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 18 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1
The power which a horse exerts.
- 2
A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute; hence, it is the power that must be exerted in lifting 33,000 pounds at the rate of one foot per minute, or 550 pounds at the rate of one foot per second, or 55 pounds at the rate of ten feet per second, etc.
- 3
A machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery; a horse motor.
- 4noun
a unit of power equal to 746 watts
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