📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- The power which a horse exerts.
- 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; hence, it is the power that must be exerted in lifting
- 33,000 pounds at the rate of one foot per minute, or 550 pounds at the
- rate of one foot per second, or 55 pounds at the rate of ten feet per
- second, etc.
- A machine worked by a horse, for driving other
- machinery; a horse motor.