Measurement unit: millikip

Full name: millikip

Plural form: millikips

Category type: force

Scale factor: 4.4482216




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SI unit: newton

The SI derived unit for force is the newton.
1 newton is equal to 0.22480894387096 millikip.



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Definition: Millikip

The SI prefix "milli" represents a factor of 10-3, or in exponential notation, 1E-3.

So 1 millikip = 10-3 kips.

The definition of a kip is as follows:

In the United States, a kip is sometimes a unit of mass that equals 1,000 avoirdupois pounds (used to compute shipping charges), or more often a unit of force that equals 1,000 pounds force (used to measure engineering loads). Its symbol is kip. The name comes from combining the words "kilo" and "pound", thus 1,000 pounds; it is called a kilopound, sometimes using the same symbol kip or sometimes klb.


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