Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of power equal to 1,000 watts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thousand watts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Elec.) One thousand watts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One thousand ( 103 )
watts . Symbol:kW orKW .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a unit of power equal to 1000 watts
Etymologies
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Examples
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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).
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The retail price of a kilowatt is about ten cents, which means that the unsubsidized wholesale price would be less.
Solar Dreams, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The retail price of a kilowatt is about ten cents : you say kilowatts - do you mean kilowatt-hours?
Solar Dreams, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Is it possible to simple rate these energy sources in kilowatt hours per day, averaged over a year?
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Electricity is billed in kilowatt-hours (kWh), which is amount of electricity equivalent to using ten 100 watts bulbs continuously for one hour (one thousand watts for one hour).
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Electricity is billed in kilowatt-hours (kWh), which is amount of electricity equivalent to using ten 100 watts bulbs continuously for one hour (one thousand watts for one hour).
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A kilowatt is a measure of power at the equivalent of 1.34 horsepower.
Wired Top Stories Dave Eyvazzadeh 2009
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The guy in my piece from Sunrgi says he has the technology to bring it down to 5 cents per kilowatt, which is sort of the magic number ...
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To a consumer, a kilowatt is a kilowatt, whether produced by thermonuclear fusion or burning coal.
The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996
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To a consumer, a kilowatt is a kilowatt, whether produced by thermonuclear fusion or burning coal.
The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996
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