Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An amount of power, especially electric power, expressed in watts or kilowatts.
- noun The electric power required by an appliance or device.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The rating in watts, of any electrical machine or device, of the power required to operate it: as, the wattage of a glow-lamp.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An amount or
power (especiallyelectric ), expressed inwatts ,kilowatts etc - noun The power
requirement of some electricappliance
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the product of voltage and current
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Examples
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A call to GE revealed that the feds now require the heating elements to be below a certain wattage threshold.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Unfortunately, I Have Lately Had Cause to Lament the Same Thing 2010
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Edited by Stuart M. Kaminsky, the 20-tale collection may not boast the name wattage of its sibling, but no matter: These are, by and large, excellent stories, making for a book of which Poe would be proud.
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The wattage is the total amount of power required to run an appliance.
The RVer’s Bible Kim Baker 1997
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The wattage is the total amount of power required to run an appliance.
The RVer’s Bible Kim Baker 1997
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The wattage is the total amount of power required to run an appliance.
The RVer’s Bible Kim Baker 1997
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The wattage is the total amount of power required to run an appliance.
The RVer’s Bible Kim Baker 1997
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The wattage is the highest possible, producing toast faster and crisper than ever before.
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You'd think that kind of wattage would take the weight off but it doesn't.
Saturday Photo Hunt Teena in Toronto 2007
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Taylor Marsh, writing for the lefty Huffington Post, laments the lack of "wattage" among the women of the left.
Moonbattery Gregory of Yardale 2010
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Of course, high efficiency is always to be mentioned on this kind of wattage range.
TweakPC News 2009
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