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poncelet

CIDE DICTIONARY

ponceletn. [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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