kilowatt

See also: Kilowatt and kilo-watt

English

Alternative forms

• kilo-watt

Etymology

From kilo- + watt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪ.ləˌwɒt/, /ˈkiə.ləˌwɒt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

kilowatt (plural kilowatts)

2. 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.)

   Synonyms: kW, ㎾ (symbol)

   Holonyms: MW, megawatt < GW, gigawatt < TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt

   Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt

   • 1974, CQ: The Radio Amateurs' Journal, volume 30, number 1, page 36:

     And one California kilowatt equals 3 East Coast KWs. And—as everybody knows that—we, on the East Coast, are the only legal ones.

   • 2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.3.5 Electrical Generation and Distribution System”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015‎^[1], archived from the original on 15 May 2022, pages 36–37:

     Each turbogenerator consisted of a steam turbine, powered by 900 psi of superheated steam, that was coupled by a set of reduction gears to a General Electric marine alternating-current generator operating at 1,800 rpm. Each generator had a capacity of 2,000 kilowatts of three-phase power at 450 volts and 60 hertz. The main 450-volt switchboard was energized by the two turbogenerators. The emergency switchboard, in the emergency generator room, was fed from the main switchboard through an electrical tie.

3. (informal) Catachresis for kilowatt-hour.

Derived terms

• California kilowatt
• kilowatt alley
• kilowatt-hour
• kilowatt-year
• multikilowatt

Translations

one thousand watts

• Catalan: quilowatt m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 千瓦 (zh) (qiānwǎ)

• Czech: kilowatt m
• Esperanto: kilovato
• Estonian: kilovatt
• Finnish: kilowatti (fi)
• French: kilowatt (fr) m
• German: Kilowatt (de) n
• Hindi: किलोवाट (kilovāṭ)
• Icelandic: kílóvatt n
• Italian: chilowatt (it) m
• Japanese: キロワット (ja) (kirowatto)
• Khmer: គីឡូវ៉ាត់ (km) (kiilouvat)
• Korean: 킬로와트 (ko) (killowateu)
• Latvian: kilovats m
• Lithuanian: kilovãtas m
• Macedonian: киловат m (kilovat)
• Portuguese: quilovate (pt) m, quilovátio (pt) m, quilowatt (pt) m
• Russian: килова́тт (ru) m (kilovátt)
• Slovak: kilowatt (sk)
• Spanish: kilovatio (es) m, kilowatt m
• Swahili: kilowati
• Swedish: kilowatt (sv) c
• Thai: กิโลวัตต์
• Ukrainian: кілова́т (uk) m (kilovát)
• Urdu: کلو واٹ (kilovāṭ), کلواٹ (kilovāṭ)
• Zazaki: kilowat m

French

Etymology

From kilo- +‎ watt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki.lɔ.wat/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

kilowatt m (plural kilowatts)

1. kilowatt

Derived terms

• kilowattheure

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

From kilo- +‎ watt.

Noun

kilowatt m (invariable)

1. kilowatt

   Synonym: chilowatt

Portuguese

Noun

kilowatt m (plural kilowatts)

1. alternative spelling of quilowatt

Further reading

• “kilowatt”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French kilowatt. By surface analysis, kilo- +‎ watt.

Noun

kilowatt m (plural kilowați)

1. kilowatt

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	kilowatt	kilowattul	kilowați	kilowații
genitive-dative	kilowatt	kilowattului	kilowați	kilowaților
vocative	kilowattule		kilowaților

Spanish

Etymology

From kilo- +‎ watt.

Noun

kilowatt m (plural kilowatts)

1. kilowatt