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Kilowatt

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A unit of power equal to 1,000 watts.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. One thousand ( 103 ) watts. Symbol: kW or KW.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One thousand watts.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A thousand watts.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a unit of power equal to 1000 watts

Word Usage

"For that you will need to get something rated in watts per unit time (you may notice the term kilowatt hour on your electricity bills which is how many thousand of watts over a one hour time period)."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

power unit

Form

kilowatt-hour

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

ampere amperage land-surface kilowatt-hours shekel watt megawatts axillaribus amp pollster