kilowatt en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈkiə.ləˌwɒt/
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈkɪ.ləˌwɒt/
Etymology
From kilo- + watt.
Meanings
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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
Each turbogenerator consisted of a steam turbine, powered by 900 psi of superheated steam, that was coupled by a set of reduction gears to a General Electric marine alternating-current generator operating at 1,800 rpm. Each generator had a capacity of 2,000 kilowatts of three-phase power at 450 volts and 60 hertz. The main 450-volt switchboard was energized by the two turbogenerators. The emergency switchboard, in the emergency generator room, was fed from the main switchboard through an electrical tie.
2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.3.5 Electrical Generation and Distribution System”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, pages 36–37:And one California kilowatt equals 3 East Coast KWs. And—as everybody knows that—we, on the East Coast, are the only legal ones.
1974, CQ: The Radio Amateurs' Journal, volume 30, number 1, page 36:
- (informal) Catachresis for kilowatt-hour.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| kilo-watt | alternative | lexicographic | |
| kilowatts | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
kilowatt-year · kilowatt-hour · kilowatt alley · multikilowatt · California kilowatt
Synonyms
Translations (32)
hi किलोवाट (one thousand watts) · lv kilovats (one thousand watts) · sk kilowatt (one thousand watts) · es kilowatt (one thousand watts) · ur کلواٹ (one thousand watts) · eo kilovato (one thousand watts) · mk киловат (one thousand watts) · sv kilowatt (one thousand watts) · sw kilowati (one thousand watts) · cs kilowatt (one thousand watts) · uk кілова́т (one thousand watts) · pt quilowatt (one thousand watts) · pt quilovátio (one thousand watts) · th กิโลวัตต์ (one thousand watts) · pt quilovate (one thousand watts) · zza kilowat (one thousand watts) · lt kilovãtas (one thousand watts) · pl kilowat (one thousand watts) · ko 킬로와트 (one thousand watts) · de Kilowatt (one thousand watts) · ca quilowatt (one thousand watts) · fi kilowatti (one thousand watts) · ru килова́тт (one thousand watts) · et kilovatt (one thousand watts) · ur کلو واٹ (one thousand watts) · fr kilowatt (one thousand watts) · es kilovatio (one thousand watts) · cmn 千瓦 (one thousand watts) · km គីឡូវ៉ាត់ (one thousand watts) · is kílóvatt (one thousand watts) · ja キロワット (one thousand watts) · it chilowatt (one thousand watts)