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Hp vs Horsepower - What's the difference?

hp | horsepower |

As an abbreviation hp

is horsepower.

As a noun horsepower is

a non-metric unit of power (symbol hp) with various definitions, for different applications the most common of them is probably the mechanical horsepower, approximately equal to 7457 watts.

hp

English

Initialism

(Initialism) (head)
  • hire purchase
  • The Company
  • horse power
  • (gaming) hit points
  • higher power
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  • * '>citation
    • Overall, this is the first HP game to even get near to living up to the quality of JK Rowling's books and the accompanying films.

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    horsepower

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia horsepower) (en-noun)
  • A non-metric unit of power (symbol hp) with various definitions, for different applications. The most common of them is probably the mechanical horsepower, approximately equal to 745.7 watts.
  • * 2012 March 22nd, David Blockley, Engineering: (309), (Oxford University Press), ISBN 9780199578696, chapter 2: “The age of gravity – time for work”, page 20:
    • In the past, before the widespread adoption of SI units, the work that engines were capable of doing was compared with the work that horses could do – hence the term ‘horsepower'’. Various people came up with various equivalencies, but the modern agreed definition is that 1 ' horsepower is 746 joules per second or 746 watts.
  • A metric horsepower (symbol often PS from the German abbreviation), approximately equal to 735.5 watts.
  • Strength
    • political horsepower

    Derived terms

    * horsepower-hour * hydraulic horsepower * mechanical horsepower * thermal horsepower