Poncelet
Pronunciation : Ponce"let, n. [After Jean Victor Poncelet
Part of Speech : French
Definition : Defn: 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.
engineer.] (Physics)
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913