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watter

watter noun: something that uses the specified amount of watts.

Noun

watter (plural watters)

  1. (in-compounds) Something that uses the specified amount of watts.
    • The original cost of the 100-watter is approximately 15 cents, while the 2 60-watters will cost about 26 cents, and the 6 25-watters will cost about 60 cents. That’s one saving. To operate the 100-watter for 1,000 hours in a community where electricity costs 4 cents a kilowatt hour would cost...1940 November 15, Consumers’ Guide, volume VII, number 4, page 13, column 3
    • The small, mushroom-shaped bulb is a new 300-watter recently put on the market by Westinghouse for about $1.25.1950 October, Popular Science, page 225, column 2

Examples of watter in a sentence

  • The original cost of the 100-watter is approximately 15 cents, while the 2 60-watters will cost about 26 cents, and the 6 25-watters will cost about 60 cents.1940 November 15, Consumers’ Guide, volume VII, number 4, page 13, column 3:
  • In 1927 Bridge built station KTAP, another 10-watter on 1140 kilocycles.1998, Morton Richard Schroeder, Texas Signs On: The Early Days of Radio and Television, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 47:

Forms of watter

pluralwatters

Origin of watter

From watt + -er.

Questions about watter

What does watter mean?
Watter means something that uses the specified amount of watts.
How do you use watter in a sentence?
The original cost of the 100-watter is approximately 15 cents, while the 2 60-watters will cost about 26 cents, and the 6 25-watters will cost about 60 cents.
What part of speech is watter?
Watter is a noun.
What is the plural of watter?
The plural of watter is watters.

Words near watter in the dictionary

  1. Watteau pleats
  2. Watteauesque
  3. Watteaus
  4. Wattenbarger
  5. Wattenbargers
  6. watter
  7. watters
  8. wattersite
  9. Watterson
  10. Wattersons
  11. wattevilleite

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