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Kilowatt

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    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"

  2. 2
    a unit of power equal to 1000 watts wordnet
  3. 3
    Catachresis for kilowatt-hour. informal

Etymology

From kilo- + watt.

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