Horsepower-hour (Noun)
Meaning
A unit of work equal to the work done by one horsepower in one hour.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The large diesel engine consumed 500 horsepower-hours of energy to complete the task.
- The company's new policy was to express all energy consumption in horsepower-hours to simplify calculations.
- A typical household uses around 10,000 horsepower-hours of electricity per year, on average.
- Converting the energy usage from BTUs to horsepower-hours made the comparison with other systems easier.
- The engineer calculated that the industrial pump required 750 horsepower-hours to fill the tank in one hour.