Definition of foot-pound-second system in English:

foot-pound-second system

noun

A system of measurement with the foot, pound, and second as basic units.
英尺-磅-秒单位制
Example sentencesExamples
- The slug is part of a subset of coherent units known as the gravitational foot-pound-second system, one of several such specialized systems of mechanical units developed in the late 19th and the 20th century.
- The absolute foot-pound-second system of units retains the second as the unit of time.
- When I was in high school in the early 60s (in Australia), one of the systems of measurement we were taught was the British foot-pound-second system, in which the foot was the unit of length, the pound the unit of mass and the second the unit of time.
- What's the unit of mass in the foot-pound-second system?
- I have memories of changing from the foot-pound-second system to the centimetre-gram-second system back in the sixties, with interesting detours into the area of poundel and slugs.
- Only in America we are still sticking to miles, feet or yards, pounds, and Fahrenheit to measure the same things (foot-pound-second system).
- The distinction between this imperial system and the U.S. customary units (also called standard units there) or older British / English units/systems and newer additions (foot-pound-second systems) is often not drawn precisely.

Definition of foot-pound-second system in US English:

foot-pound-second system

noun

A system of measurement having the foot, pound, and second as basic units.
英尺-磅-秒单位制
Example sentencesExamples
- The absolute foot-pound-second system of units retains the second as the unit of time.
- Only in America we are still sticking to miles, feet or yards, pounds, and Fahrenheit to measure the same things (foot-pound-second system).
- I have memories of changing from the foot-pound-second system to the centimetre-gram-second system back in the sixties, with interesting detours into the area of poundel and slugs.
- The slug is part of a subset of coherent units known as the gravitational foot-pound-second system, one of several such specialized systems of mechanical units developed in the late 19th and the 20th century.
- When I was in high school in the early 60s (in Australia), one of the systems of measurement we were taught was the British foot-pound-second system, in which the foot was the unit of length, the pound the unit of mass and the second the unit of time.
- The distinction between this imperial system and the U.S. customary units (also called standard units there) or older British / English units/systems and newer additions (foot-pound-second systems) is often not drawn precisely.
- What's the unit of mass in the foot-pound-second system?

单词	foot-pound-second system
释义	Definition of foot-pound-second system in English: foot-pound-second system noun A system of measurement with the foot, pound, and second as basic units. 英尺-磅-秒单位制 Example sentencesExamples The slug is part of a subset of coherent units known as the gravitational foot-pound-second system, one of several such specialized systems of mechanical units developed in the late 19th and the 20th century. The absolute foot-pound-second system of units retains the second as the unit of time. When I was in high school in the early 60s (in Australia), one of the systems of measurement we were taught was the British foot-pound-second system, in which the foot was the unit of length, the pound the unit of mass and the second the unit of time. What's the unit of mass in the foot-pound-second system? I have memories of changing from the foot-pound-second system to the centimetre-gram-second system back in the sixties, with interesting detours into the area of poundel and slugs. Only in America we are still sticking to miles, feet or yards, pounds, and Fahrenheit to measure the same things (foot-pound-second system). The distinction between this imperial system and the U.S. customary units (also called standard units there) or older British / English units/systems and newer additions (foot-pound-second systems) is often not drawn precisely. Definition of foot-pound-second system in US English: foot-pound-second system noun A system of measurement having the foot, pound, and second as basic units. 英尺-磅-秒单位制 Example sentencesExamples The absolute foot-pound-second system of units retains the second as the unit of time. Only in America we are still sticking to miles, feet or yards, pounds, and Fahrenheit to measure the same things (foot-pound-second system). I have memories of changing from the foot-pound-second system to the centimetre-gram-second system back in the sixties, with interesting detours into the area of poundel and slugs. The slug is part of a subset of coherent units known as the gravitational foot-pound-second system, one of several such specialized systems of mechanical units developed in the late 19th and the 20th century. When I was in high school in the early 60s (in Australia), one of the systems of measurement we were taught was the British foot-pound-second system, in which the foot was the unit of length, the pound the unit of mass and the second the unit of time. The distinction between this imperial system and the U.S. customary units (also called standard units there) or older British / English units/systems and newer additions (foot-pound-second systems) is often not drawn precisely. What's the unit of mass in the foot-pound-second system?
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