foot-pound

1. 1.

   a unit of work equal to a force of one pound moving through a distance of one foot

   Broaderwork unit

   Part offoot-ton

Questions about foot-pound

What does foot-pound mean?

foot-pound means "a unit of work equal to a force of one pound moving through a distance of one foot".

How many syllables are in foot-pound?

foot-pound has 2 syllables and divides as foot--pound under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is foot-pound a common word?

foot-pound is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.