Word.ws English Dictionary

kilowatts

kilowatts is the plural of kilowatt.

Meaning of kilowatt

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
  2. (informal) Catachresis for kilowatt-hour.

Phrases with kilowatts

Questions about kilowatts

What is kilowatts the plural of?
Kilowatts is the plural of kilowatt.

Words near kilowatts in the dictionary

  1. kilowatt-hours
  2. kilowatt-year
  3. kilowatt-years
  4. kilowattage
  5. kilowattages
  6. kilowatts
  7. kiloword
  8. kilowords
  9. kiloyard
  10. kiloyear
  11. kiloyears

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kilowatts (page history and authors); kilowatt (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “kilowatts.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/kilowatts. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.