Poncelet

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]