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Also known as PS, metric HP, metric horse power, hp, cv, ISO 14396
Horsepower (hp) is a unit of measurement of power, or the rate at which work is done, usually in reference to the output of engines or motors. There are many different standards and types of horsepower. Two common definitions used today are the imperial horsepower, abbreviated hp or bhp, which is about , and the metric horsepower, also represented as cv or PS, which is approximately . The electric horsepower, hpE, is exactly , while the boiler horsepower is 9809.5 or 9811 watts, depending on the exact year.
AI overview
Metric horsepower (also called cv or PS) is a unit of power used to measure how much work an engine or motor can do per unit of time, similar to the more familiar imperial horsepower but using a slightly different standard. It matters because different countries and industries use different horsepower standards, so understanding metric horsepower helps people compare engine power across different systems and specifications.
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Key facts
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- Horsepower
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- Imperial Horsepower.svg
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- One imperial horsepower lifts by in 1 second.
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- power
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- hp
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- conversion to SI unit
- 735.49875
- unit symbol
- CV
- Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent
- wd:Q160857 p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?source; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. ?item p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?target; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. BIND(?source / ?target as ?value)
- Commons category
- Metric horsepower