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kilowatt-hour

kilowatt-hour noun: a unit of energy equal to that provided by one kilowatt acting for one hour (3·6 × 10⁶ joules).

Noun

kilowatt-hour (plural kilowatt-hours)

  1. A unit of energy equal to that provided by one kilowatt acting for one hour (3·6 × 10⁶ joules).
    • Holonyms: watt-year (31.536e6 J) < gigajoule (1.000e9 J) < megawatt-hour (3.600e9 J) < kilowatt-year (31.536e9 J) < terajoule (1.000e12 J) < gigawatt-hour (3.600e12 J) < megawatt-year (31.536e12 J) < petajoule (1.000e15 J) < terawatt-hour (3.600e15 J) < gigawatt-year (31.536e15 J) < exajoule...
    • Meronyms: yoctojoule (1.000e-24 J) < zeptojoule (1.000e-21 J) < attojoule (1.000e-18 J) < hartree (4.35974e-18 J) < femtojoule (1.000e-15 J) < picojoule (1.000e-12 J) < nanojoule (1.000e-9 J) < microjoule (1.000e-6 J) < millijoule (1.000e-3 J) < joule (1 J) < milliwatt-hour (3.6 J) < microwatt-year...

kilowatt-hour meaning in Tamil

kilowatt-hour in Tamil

மின்ஆற்றல் அலகு

Forms of kilowatt-hour

pluralkilowatt-hours

Origin of kilowatt-hour

By surface analysis, kilowatt + hour, or, by surface analysis, kilo- + watt-hour.

Questions about kilowatt-hour

What does kilowatt-hour mean?
Kilowatt-hour means a unit of energy equal to that provided by one kilowatt acting for one hour (3·6 × 10⁶ joules).
What is kilowatt-hour in Tamil?
Kilowatt-hour in Tamil is மின்ஆற்றல் அலகு. See Kilowatt-hour meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is kilowatt-hour?
Kilowatt-hour is a noun.
What is the plural of kilowatt-hour?
The plural of kilowatt-hour is kilowatt-hours.

Words near kilowatt-hour in the dictionary

  1. kilowatt alley
  2. kilowatt hour
  3. kilowatt hours
  4. kilowatt year
  5. kilowatt years
  6. kilowatt-hour
  7. kilowatt-hours
  8. kilowatt-year
  9. kilowatt-years
  10. kilowattage
  11. kilowattages

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kilowatt-hour (page history and authors); kilowatt-hour (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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