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"word": "brake horsepower"
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"word": "equivalent shaft horsepower"
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"etymology_text": "horse + power: the unit was originally defined as the amount of power that a horse could provide.\nBoth non-metric and metric units of power were derived from effectively identical measurements of the power a draught horse could sustain over several hours, with the difference in watts solely due to different rounding errors to express that power in round numbers in the original non-SI units (ft·lbf/min and kgf⋅m/s respectively).",
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"ref": "2003, Gavin Weightman, What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us, page 57",
"text": "The wheel was to have been turned by horsepower, but it was adapted to be driven by a mill-wheel on the river Derwent […]",
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"ref": "2012 March 22nd, David Blockley, Engineering: A Very Short Introduction (309), Oxford University Press, chapter 2: “The age of gravity – time for work”, page 20",
"text": "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."
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Pferdestärke"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "íppos",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ίππος"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "kóaḥ sus",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "כּוֹחַ סוּס"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "aśva śakti",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "अश्व शक्ति"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "harsapāvar",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "हर्सपावर"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "(metrikus) lóerő"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "each-chumhacht"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cavallo vapore"
},
{
"alt": "ばりき",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "bariki",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "馬力"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "at küşı",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "ат күші"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "haʼyĕəʼpŭəl",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "ហយពល"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "ʼahsvaʼrɨt",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "អស្វឫទ្ធិ"
},
{
"alt": "馬力",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "maryeok",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "마력"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zirgspēks"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "arklio galia"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "konjska sila",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "коњска сила"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "kuasa kuda"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "kutiraśakti",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "കുതിരശക്തി"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "moriny xüč",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "морины хүч"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "hestekraft"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "hestekraft"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hestekraft"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "asb-e boxâr",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "اسب بخار"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Pieetskrauft"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "koń mechaniczny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "cavalo de vapor"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cavalo-vapor"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cal-putere"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lošadínaja síla",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лошади́ная си́ла"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "l. s.",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "л. с."
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "коњска снага"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "konjska snaga"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kôň"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "konská sila"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "strojný kôň"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "konjska moč"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "caballo de vapor"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "hästkraft"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "kutirait tiṟaṉ",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "குதிரைத் திறன்"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "aśva sāmarthyaṁ",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "అశ్వ సామర్థ్యం"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "rɛɛng-máa",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "แรงม้า"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "beygir gücü"
},
{
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "at güýji"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kínsʹka sýla",
"sense": "metric",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "кі́нська си́ла"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "اسپی طاقت"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "ot kuchi"
},
{
"alt": "馬力",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "metric",
"word": "mã lực"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "strength",
"word": "馬力"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "mǎlì",
"sense": "strength",
"word": "马力"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "strength",
"word": "macht"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "strength",
"word": "vääntövoima"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "strength",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "força"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lošadínaja síla",
"sense": "strength",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лошади́ная си́ла"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"horsepower"
],
"word": "horsepower"
}
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