Kilopond
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Kilopond
a designation for a unit of force in the mks system of units that has been adopted in several European countries (the German Democratic Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, and Sweden); designation kp. In the USSR the corresponding unit is called the kilogram-force.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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