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 and divides as hor-se-po-wer--hour 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 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.