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kilowatt

/ˈkɪ.ləˌwɒt/

kilowatt 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.).

Noun

kilowatt (plural kilowatts)

  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
    • Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt
  2. (informal) Catachresis for kilowatt-hour.

kilowatt meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Thai

kilowatt in Hindi

one thousand watts
किलोवाट kilovāṭ

kilowatt in Tamil

கிலோவுவாற்று, கிலோவாட்

kilowatt in Urdu

one thousand watts
کلو واٹ kilovāṭ, کلواٹ kilovāṭ

kilowatt in Thai

one thousand watts
กิโลวัตต์

Examples of kilowatt in a sentence

  • And one California kilowatt equals 3 East Coast KWs.1974, CQ: The Radio Amateurs' Journal, volume 30, number 1, page 36:
  • Each generator had a capacity of 2,000 kilowatts of three-phase power at 450 volts and 60 hertz.2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.3.5 Electrical Generation and Distribution System”, in Marine Accident Report...

Forms of kilowatt

pluralkilowatts
alternative formkilo-watt

Plural of kilowatt: kilowatts

Origin of kilowatt

From kilo- + watt.

Words formed from kilowatt

Phrases with kilowatt

Questions about kilowatt

What does kilowatt mean?
Kilowatt means 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.).
What is kilowatt in Hindi?
Kilowatt in Hindi is किलोवाट (kilovāṭ). See Kilowatt meaning in Hindi.
How do you use kilowatt in a sentence?
And one California kilowatt equals 3 East Coast KWs.
What part of speech is kilowatt?
Kilowatt is a noun.
How do you pronounce kilowatt?
Kilowatt is pronounced /ˈkɪ.ləˌwɒt/.
What is the plural of kilowatt?
The plural of kilowatt is kilowatts.

Words near kilowatt in the dictionary

  1. kilovoltmeters
  2. kilovolts
  3. kiloware
  4. kilowarhol
  5. kilowarhols
  6. kilowatt
  7. kilowatt alley
  8. kilowatt hour
  9. kilowatt hours
  10. kilowatt year
  11. kilowatt years

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kilowatt (page history and authors); kilowatt (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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