'Poncelet' definitions:

Definition of 'Poncelet'

From: 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.]