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In some senses, kilowatt is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.
kilowatt
noun 2
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Definitions
noun
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 e
Holonyms: MW, megawatt < GW, gigawatt < TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt
Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt
2
Catachresis for kilowatt-hour.
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noun — a unit of power equal to 1000 watts
- kw
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Holonyms: MW, megawatt < GW, gigawatt < TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt
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Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt
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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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