The Poise (pronounced 'pwahz', it's French) is a unit of measuring?
Poise (unit) Poise (unit) The poise (symbol P; ) is the unit of dynamic viscosity (absolute viscosity) in the centimetre–gram–second system of units. It is named after Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (see Hagen–Poiseuille equation). The analogous unit in the International System of Units is the pascal-second (Pa⋅s): The poise is often used with the metric prefix "centi-" because the viscosity of water at 20 °C (NTP) is almost exactly 1 centipoise. A centipoise is one hundredth of a poise, or one millipascal-second (mPa⋅s) in SI units (1 cP = 10 Pa⋅s = 1 mPa⋅s). The CGS symbol for the centipoise is cP.
Ferdinand Poise with previous works. His contemporary Arnold Mortier paints a portrait of Poise "long, emaciated and funeral. Poise, who wrote such vivid and valiant scores, is, I am assured, one of the saddest men in Paris". Poise died in paris at age 63. After David Charlton's article in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed Stanley Sadie,Mac Millan,1980, vol 15 Ferdinand Poise Jean-Alexandre-Ferdinand Poise (3 June 1828 – 13 May 1892) was a French composer, author of opéra-comiques of which he wrote the librettos or participated to the writing. Born in Nimes, Poise studied at the Conservatoire de Paris