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Poncelet
Poncelet meaning
An obsolete French unit of power, equal to the power required to raise a quintal at a velocity of one metre per second.
Example sentences (3)
It has a heavy and robust body Poncelet, Eric.
Poncelet used it, not for any applied purpose, but as a teaching and demonstration aid.
To Poncelet's French contemporaries, it was something new.