horsepower
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- n a unit of power equal to 746 watts
- The horsepower race, which Detroit likes to pretend does not exist in standard cars, is off to a fast start in the compacts.
- The diesel has never been big box office before, but, as the world's most efficient internal combustion engine, it has revved up more horsepower in less time than any industrial .
- There was a time when 90 horsepower was a lot, and that time was 1932.