(n)Spanish explorer who accompanied Columbus on his second trip in 1493; in 1513 he discovered Florida while searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth (1460-1521), Syn.Juan Ponce de Leon
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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. ]