Horse power () The power which a horse exerts. |
Horse power () A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute |
Horse power () A machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery |
Metric system () See Metric, a. |
Power (n.) Same as Poor, the fish. |
Power (n.) Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent |
Power (n.) Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted |
Power (n.) Capacity of undergoing or suffering |
Power (n.) The exercise of a faculty |
Power (n.) The agent exercising an ability to act |
Power (n.) A military or naval force |
Power (n.) A large quantity |
Power (n.) The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical work performed, as by an engine or other machine, or an animal, working continuously |
Power (n.) A mechanical agent |
Power (n.) Applied force |
Power (n.) A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery |
Power (n.) The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself |
Power (n.) Mental or moral ability to act |
Power (n.) The degree to which a lens, mirror, or any optical instrument, magnifies |
Power (n.) An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person |
Power (n.) Hence, vested authority to act in a given case |
Steam (n.) The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points |
Steam (n.) The mist formed by condensed vapor |
Steam (n.) Any exhalation. |
Steam (v. i.) To emit steam or vapor. |
Steam (v. i.) To rise in vapor |
Steam (v. i.) To move or travel by the agency of steam. |
Steam (v. i.) To generate steam |
Steam (v. t.) To exhale. |
Steam (v. t.) To expose to the action of steam |
Steam engine () An engine moved by steam. |
System (n.) An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific |
System (n.) Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole |
System (n.) Regular method or order |
System (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n. |
System (n.) An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ |
System (n.) One of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians. |
Water power () The power of water employed to move machinery, etc. |
Water power () A fall of water which may be used to drive machinery |