Ponce"let (?), n. [After Jean Victor
Poncelet, French engineer.] (Physics) A unit of
power, being the power obtained from an expenditure of one hundred
kilogram-meters of energy per second. One poncelet equals g
watts, when g is the value of the acceleration of gravity in
centimeters.
Ponce"let (?), n. [After Jean Victor
Poncelet, French engineer.] (Physics) A unit of
power, being the power obtained from an expenditure of one hundred
kilogram-meters of energy per second. One poncelet equals g
watts, when g is the value of the acceleration of gravity in
centimeters.