foot-pound meaning

Noun: foot-pound  fût pawnd

1. A unit of work equal to a force of one pound moving through a distance of one foot

Derived forms: foot-pounds

Type of: energy unit, heat unit, work unit

Part of: foot-ton

Encyclopedia: Foot-pound

[Electronics]
Abbreviation, ft-lb. In the English system, a unit of energy equal to 1 pound displaced through 1 foot in the direction of the exerting force. The Standard International (S.I.) unit is the joule(j); 1 ft-lb = 1.356 j.

[Medicine]
n pl foot-pounds : a unit of work equal to the work done by a force of one pound acting through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force