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How to use watt in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Watt means in the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Example: “The transformer is rated at 10 watts.”

More sentences with watt

  • The transformer is rated at 10 watts.From the entry rate
  • This heater draws more than a thousand watts of electricity.From the entry electricity
  • The circuit draws three hundred watts.From the entry draw
  • Watt was a cardiac case, a seawise and kindly man, and probably by now he is dead.2022, A. J. Liebling, Back where I came from. From the entry seawise
  • A typical lightning bolt has an optical power of about 1 billion watts.1979, Kendrick Frazier, The Violent Face of Nature: Severe Phenomena and Natural Disasters, Morrow, →ISBN, page 97. From the entry superbolt
  • Doodles sits under twenty-five watts and quite a titsy calendar in the storefront "Arizona Taxi Service."1977, Cornell Review - Issues 1-4, page 102. From the entry titsy
  • Watt listened for a time, for the voice was far from unmelodious.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry fricative
  • Watt could pick simple locks, but he could not pick obscure locks.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry pick
  • Watt climbed the stone steps and stood before the wicket, looking through its bars.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry wicket
  • Watt was not the first to whom Mr Graves had unbosomed himself, in this connexion.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Paris: Olympia Press, →OL. From the entry unbosom
  • Watt was not a woman's man, but the fishwoman pleased him greatly.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry fishwoman
  • One bozon is the exact amount of stupidity and lack of scientific knowledge needed to confuse joules with watts.2000, Jeffrey Yu, “[Fanfic] Flame Wars!!!”, in alt.startrek.vs.starwars (Usenet). From the entry bozon
  • Watt wore, on his feet, a boot, brown in colour, and a shoe, happily of a brownish colour also.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry brownish
  • Watt had never heard them do so, as he surely would have done, if they had done so.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry undertone
  • In view of this monolithic corporation-sponsored drecknesss settling on the land, it's grotesque to work up a lather about a 20-watt alternative radio station.1996 July 6, Stanley Poss, “Huge influence of big business is ever present”, in The Fresno Bee, Fresno, C.A.: The McClatchy Company…. From the entry dreckness
  • Values of wind power are given in units of watts per square meter (of rotor swept area), along isodyns, or curves of constant power.1989, J.O. Bockris, B. Dandapani, J.C. Wass, “A Solar Hydrogen Energy System”, in Advances in Solar Energy, page 218. From the entry isodyn
  • Watt decided in the end that an examination of Erskine's room was essential, if his mind was to be pacified, in this connexion.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry pacify
  • Watt gets his turn on the mic too, delivering an amusingly disjointed rap (following Minutemen tradition, he calls it a spiel) on "Me & You, Remembering."1991, Ira A. Robbins, The Trouser Press Record Guide, Howell Book House, →ISBN. From the entry spiel
  • Watt was beginning to tire of running his eyes up and down this highway, when a figure, human apparently, advancing along its crown, arrested, and revived, his attention.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry crown
  • Watt replied that that would indeed be something to look forward to, and a comfort to him during the night, the prospect of being enlarged, in the morning, by Mr.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry enlarge

Meaning of watt

  1. noun In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second.

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Questions about watt in a sentence

How do you use watt in a sentence?
Watt is used as a noun. For example: “The transformer is rated at 10 watts.”
What is a short sentence with watt?
“The circuit draws three hundred watts.”
What does watt mean?
Watt means in the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second.

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