Lexicographical Neighbors of Geepound
Literary usage of Geepound
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by American Society for Engineering Education (1905)
"I use a special name for the so-called " engineer unit," " geepound ... I found
that four authors use the pound and sixteen the geepound as unit mass. ..."
2. Analytical Mechanics for Engineers by Fred B. Seely, Newton Edward Ensign (1921)
"The name geepound which suggests 32.2 lb. is also used to some extent, but, in
general, the unit of mass here considered is called simply a unit of mass ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"The usefulness of a name for the unit thus defined will be agreed to even by
those who hesitate to adopt the names geepound and ..."
4. Handbook of Mathematics for Engineers by Edward Vermilye Huntington, Louis Albert Fischer (1918)
"The "slug" (also called the "geepound," or the "engineer's unit of muss"), the "
metric slug," and the "poundal" are never used in practice. ..."
5. 1. Mathematical Tables by Edward Vermilye Huntington, Louis Albert Fischer (1916)
"The "slug" (also called the " geepound," or the "engineer's unit of ma the "
metric slug," and the "poundal" are never used in practice. ..."
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