Meaning

1 senses
  1. (informal)An English unit of mass equal to 12 slugs (386.088 pounds-mass), that accelerates by 1 inch per second squared (1 in/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.

Origin

Blend of slug + inch.

Blend of slug + inch.

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Forms

plural: slinches
Singularslinch
Pluralslinches

regular

See also

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