Kilowatt

noun, slang

noun, slang ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

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

Synonyms

All synonyms
kilowatt hourkwmul:kwmul:㎾unit

Example

More examples

"Writing in a blog post, the Center for Global Development said seasonal decorative lights account for 6.6 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, that is more than the national electricity consumption of El Salvador, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nepal or Cambodia."

Etymology

From kilo- + watt.

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