horsepower-hour

1. 1.

   a unit of work equal to the work done by one horsepower in one hour

   Broaderwork unit

Questions about horsepower-hour

What does horsepower-hour mean?

horsepower-hour means "a unit of work equal to the work done by one horsepower in one hour".

How many syllables are in horsepower-hour?

horsepower-hour has 5 syllables: hor-se-po-wer--hour. The stress falls on "po".

Is horsepower-hour a common word?

horsepower-hour 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.