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Horsepower - Motor Sports(gambling)
Horsepower (Hp, Bhp) - Motor Sports(gambling)
Horsepower (Hp) - Motor Sports(gambling)
Brake Horsepower (Bhp.) - Motor Sports(gambling)

horsepower (iou)



horsepower noun. Pl. same. E19.
[from HORSE noun + POWER noun (from the supposed rate of work of a horse).]
(Power as measured in terms of) a unit of rate of performing work, equivalent to 550 foot-pounds per second, (in the US) 746 watts or about 550 foot-pounds per second.
brake horsepower the power available at the shaft of an engine, measurable by means of a brake. indicated horsepower the power produced within the cylinders of an engine, as shown by an indicator.
F. Marryat She..preferred the three-horse power of the schuyt to the hundred-horse power of the steam-packet. fig.: R. W. Emerson Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.