WordNet
n. a measure of electric power
Usage examples of "power unit".
The Special Sea Detail cast off the six-inch hawsers, and scarcely had they fallen clear of the cleats on the main deck when the cruiser's auxiliary power unit started pushing the ten thousand tons of gray steel away from the floating pier.
Other ships made do with a single area light at bow or stern, but the corvette's auxiliary power unit was still live.
If I had my forefathers rightly estimated, they had also certainly arranged for an emergency power unit that would automatically switch on in case of danger.
Rhodan was suddenly startled by the roar of the power unit that had started up.
They had used the motor from an advanced kid's erector set, with self-contained power unit.
Most of the switches were already positioned, and they didn't need the auxiliary power unit, so it was quick and simple to shut down the engines.
The mower's laser was a low-power unit, but sufficiently robust to amputate weeds and small twigs&hellip.
Some device on board, maybe, that might have brought on this strange reaction by the solar power unit out there.
The mower's laser was a low-power unit, but sufficiently robust to amputate weeds and small twigs….
Astro turned back to the jet boat and ripped open the hood over the small power unit.
The little fiends of Kezdets first graduating class had been working on Ramon Trinidad for weeks, trying to convince him the combination power unit and loading station he operated was haunted by the ghost of a mining engineer who'd been killed in an accident so grisly nobody who knew the story was ever willing to use that station again.
No need to tell them to consolidate the dregs of their ammo into a single power unit.
Lasers are also available as shoulder-fired weapons operating from a portable backpack power unit.
The taxi was driven by a power unit clamped to the starboard side.
A dozen powerful fans on the underside of the car kept it floating on an invisible bubble of air, despite the weight of the fusion power unit and the iridium-ceramic armor.