kilowatt

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Definition of kilowatt

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noun

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.”

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noun

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.”
(informal)Catachresis for kilowatt-hour.

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From kilo- + watt.

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