Kilowatt
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Kilowatt is a noun meaning (informal) Catachresis for kilowatt-hour.
Meaning
(informal) Catachresis for kilowatt-hour.
More Meanings
- 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.)
Example Sentences
Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt
Holonyms: MW, megawatt < GW, gigawatt < TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt
And one California kilowatt equals 3 East Coast KWs. And—as everybody knows that—we, on the East Coast, are the only legal ones.
Word Forms
- kilowatts
- kilo-watt
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include kilo-watt, kilowattage, wattage, pico-watt, unit, kilo-volt.
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