ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GEEPOUND
From gee, representing g(ravity) + pound².
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GEEPOUND»
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geepound in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
geepound and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
This unit of mass has no generally accepted name, but it is sometimes called "
engineer's unit of mass," also "slug" and "geepound." 1 slug = 32.2 pounds (mass
). Page 168. I = fdMr2; page 194, kinetic energy (translation) = Mv2/2 = Wv2/2g; ...
American Society for Engineering Education, 1915
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Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting
I use a special name for the so-called " engineer unit," " geepound " (chosen for
its suggestiveness), and during the entire course in dynamics I keep upon my
class-room table two blocks of cast iron, one weighing one pound, and the other
...
Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (U.S.). Meeting, 1905
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Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting
This unit of mass has no generally accepted name, but it is Sometimes called “
engineer 's unit of mass,” also “Slug” and “geepound.” 1 slug:32.2 pounds (mass)
. Page 168. I: fdMr2; page 194, kinetic energy (translation) :Mv2/2:Wv2/2g; ...
American Society for Engineering Education, 1915
This unit of mass has no generally accepted name, but it is sometimes called "
engineer's unit of mass," also "slug" and "geepound." 1 slug = 32.2 pounds (mass
). Page 168. I = fdMr2; page 194, kinetic energy (translation) = Mv2/2 = Wv2/2g; ...
Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (U.S.), 1915
The geepound-foot2 or slug-foot2 is the so-called engineering unit of moment of
inertia in the English system. In the cgs or metric system the corresponding
engineering unit is the metric slug-centimeter2. Expressing / in engineering units,
it is ...
6
Demystifying Electricity
The writer had a choice of geepound, pound, or slug. However, when pound is
used as a mass, the force becomes poundal. All three terms have been used by
different writers for the unit of mass in the BEU system. For this book the writer
has ...
... GELATIN GELATINE GELATINES GELATING GELATINIZATION
GELATINIZATIONS GEL GEEZER GEEZERS GEGENSCHEIN GEGENSCHEINS
GEISHA GEISHAS GEEZ GEEST GEESTS GEESE GEEKY GEEPOUND
GEEPOUNDS GEES ...
Maliha Mendoza Mahmood, 2013
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Dictionary of Architectural and Building Technology
Also called a geepound. slump test A method of measuring the WORKABILITY of
freshly mixed concrete. The concrete is placed in a mould, which consists of a
truncated cone, 300mm (12in.) high, with a base diameter of 200mm (8in.) and a
...
Henry J. Cowan, Peter R. Smith, 2004
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Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures: ...
fea 2v. 'S и -г: £ <N „с v> '~ О Obsolete unit of mass. It was equal mass which
under an acceleration ( u geepound sometimes used for the i derived from
English: g pound. Obsolete Portuguese unit of area. 1 geira (Portuguese) = 4840
square v ...
François Cardarelli, 2003
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Surface Operations in Petroleum Production, II
... sidereal 9.9726957 X 10-1 sec (mean solar) (sec, sidereal) 1.1542472 X 10'5
days (mean solar) shake 1 X 10'8 sec (mean solar) skein 1.09728 X 103 III 3.6 X
10 3 ft slug 1.459390 X101 kg 1 geepound 3.21740 X 101 lb (avdp) slug per foot
...
J.O. Robertson, G.V. Chilingarian, S. Kumar, 1989
