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Poncelet
Poncelet 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.

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- The poncelet (symbol p) is an obsolete unit of power, once used in France and replaced by cheval-vapeur (ch, metric horsepower). The unit was named after...
- The Poncelet is a unit of power formerly used in France. Poncelet may also refer to: French submarine Poncelet (Q141), a Vichy French submarine sunk off...
- Helen Prejean (Sarandon) establishes a special relationship with Matthew Poncelet (Penn), a character based on convicted murderers Elmo Patrick Sonnier and...
- Jean-Victor Poncelet (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ viktɔʁ pɔ̃slɛ]; 1 July 1788 – 22 December 1867) was a French engineer and mathematician who served most...
- Jacqui Poncelet (born 1947), also known as Jacqueline Poncelet, is a Belgian artist. Poncelet began her art career as a ceramist in the 1970s and 1980s...
- Guillaume Poncelet (born 1978) is a French musician, composer, trumpet and piano player, born in Grenoble, France. As a composer, producer or musician...
- Léon Poncelet (1 March 1885 – 10 November 1978) was a Belgian racing cyclist. He rode in the 1922 Tour de France. "Léon Poncelet". Cycling Archives. Retrieved...
- Christian Poncelet (French pronunciation: [kʁistjɑ̃ pɔ̃slɛ]; 24 March 1928 – 11 September 2020) was a conservative French politician. A member of President...
- In geometry, Poncelet's closure theorem, also known as Poncelet's porism, states that whenever a polygon is inscribed in one conic section and cir****scribes...
- In geometry, the Poncelet point of four given points is defined as follows: Let A, B, C, D be four points in the plane that do not form an orthocentric...