Kilowatt
['kɪləwɒt] or ['kɪlə'wɑt]
Definition
(n.) One thousand watts.
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Examples
- Each engine drives a 2,500-kilowatt dynamo. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- One watt represents a very small amount of electric power, and for practical purposes a unit 1000 times as large is used, namely, the kilowatt. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Energy for electric lighting is sold at the rate of about ten cents per kilowatt hour. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- From these current was generated by 3,500 kilowatt generators and sent out to the various distributing centers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- By experiment it has been found that one kilowatt is equivalent to about 1-1/3 horse power. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- At the end of 1909 the New York Edison Company alone was operating twenty-eight stations and substations, having a total capacity of 159,500 kilowatts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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