Horsepower Definition

hôrspouər
noun
The power exerted by a horse in pulling.
Webster's New World
A basic unit of power in the FPS system, equal to the power needed to raise a weight of 550 pounds a distance of 1 foot in 1 second or a weight of 33,000 pounds a distance of 1 foot in 1 minute (746 watts or 42.41 British thermal units per minute)
Webster's New World
Effective power.
My computer doesn't have enough horsepower to crunch those numbers.
Webster's New World

Strength.

Political horsepower.
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Singular:
horsepower
Plural:
horsepowers

Origin of Horsepower

  • From horse and power, the unit originally defined as the amount of power that a horse could provide.

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Horsepower Sentence Examples

  • The unit produced 34 brake horsepower at 4350 rpm.

  • What we want to talk about is how they managed to get 345 brake horsepower out of a 2 liter engine.

  • It requires great horsepower to push the plow at the required depth.

  • These massive 20 horsepower engines, acquired from London Railways were specially adapted to use propellers in moving the ships through broken ice floes.

  • It can be said that that short-stroke engines generate higher horsepower at higher revs, long-stroke engines develop more torque at lower revs.

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