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poncelet
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poncelet, n. [After Jean Victor Poncelet , French engineer.].
A unit of power, being the power obtained from an expenditure of one hundred kilogram-meters of energy per second. One poncelet equals g watts, when g is the value of the acceleration of gravity in centimeters. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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