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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.
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slinch — a unit of mass invented by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The unit is part of a system based on the pound of force and the inch. One slinch is the mass accelerated at one inch per second per second by a force of … Dictionary of units of measurement
Slug (mass) — The slug is an English unit of mass. It is a mass that accelerates by 1 ft/s² when a force of one pound force (lbf) is exerted on it. Therefore a slug has a mass of 32.17405 pound mass or 14.5939 kg.Shigley, Joseph E. and Mischke, Charles R.… … Wikipedia
mug — 1. an informal contraction of metric slug . See TME or hyl. 2. another name for a slinch … Dictionary of units of measurement
snail — another name for a slinch … Dictionary of units of measurement
