kilovolt

See also: Kilovolt and kilo-volt

English

Alternative forms

• kilo-volt

Etymology

Etymology tree

English kilo-

English volt

English kilovolt

From kilo- + volt.

Noun

kilovolt (plural kilovolts)

1. One thousand volts. Symbol: kV or KV.
   • 1999 October 21, Sally McGrane, “Getting Power to the People: The North American Electricity Grid”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Generators usually produce electricity at 7 kilovolts (a kilovolt is a thousand volts) to 25 kilovolts; transformers at the generators step up the voltage, to 60 kilovolts to 500 kilovolts, before sending the power into the grid.

Derived terms

• kilovolt-ampere

Translations

One thousand volts

• Catalan: quilovolt m
• Finnish: kilovoltti (fi)
• Georgian: კილოვოლტი (ḳilovolṭi)
• Greek: κιλοβόλτ (kilovólt)
• Japanese: キロボルト (kiroboruto)
• Korean: 킬로볼트 (ko) (killobolteu)
• Russian: килово́льт (ru) m (kilovólʹt)
• Thai: กิโลโวลต์

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

kilovolt m (plural kilovolts)

1. kilovolt

Further reading

• “kilovolt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Etymology

From kilo- +‎ volt.

Noun

kilovolt m (invariable)

1. kilovolt

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French kilovolt. By surface analysis, kilo- +‎ volt.

Noun

kilovolt m (plural kilovolți)

1. kilovolt

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	kilovolt	kilovoltul	kilovolți	kilovolții
genitive-dative	kilovolt	kilovoltului	kilovolți	kilovolților
vocative	kilovoltule		kilovolților

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Noun

kilovolt

1. kilovolt.

Declension

Declension of kilovolt

nominative	kilovolt
genitive	kilovoltnıñ
dative	kilovoltqa
accusative	kilovoltnı
locative	kilovoltta
ablative	kilovolttan