Nowadays, the mass as a property of an object and its weight, which depends on the gravity of the Earth at its position are strictly distinguished.
To avoid this, the kilopond was first defined at sea level and a latitude of 45 degrees, since 1902 via the standard gravity of 9.80665 m/s2.
The hyl, metric slug (mug), or TME (German: technische Masseneinheit, lit.
There is no dedicated name for the unit of energy, "metre" is simply appended to "kilopond", but usually the symbol of the kilopond-metre is written without the middle dot.
The German or metric horsepower (PS, Pferdestärke) is arbitrarily selected to be three quarters thereof.