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One thousand (10³) watts, an amount of power large enough to power such things as a typical home appliance (e.g., a microwave oven, a toaster, or a hair dryer). (Consuming 1 kilowatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 kilowatt-hour of energy.).
Holonyms: MW, megawatt < GW, gigawatt < TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt
Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt
And one California kilowatt equals 3 East Coast KWs. And—as everybody knows that—we, on the East Coast, are the only legal ones.
Each turbogenerator consisted of a steam turbine, powered by 900 psi of superheated steam, that was coupled by a set of reduction gears to a General Electric marine alternating-current generator operating at 1,800 rpm. Each generator had a capacity of 2,000 kilowatts of three-phase power at 450 volts and 60 hertz. The main 450-volt switchboard was energized by the two turbogenerators. The emergency switchboard, in the emergency generator room, was fed from the main switchboard through an electrical tie.
Use kilowatt when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Kilowatt means One thousand (10³) watts, an amount of power large enough to power such things as a typical home appliance (e.g., a microwave oven, a toaster, or a hair dryer). (Consuming 1 kilowatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 kilowatt-hour of energy.).
Common synonyms include mul:kW, mul:㎾, kw.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Holonyms: MW, megawatt < GW, gigawatt < TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt
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