watt

See also: Watt

English

Etymology

After Scottish engineer James Watt.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wɒt/
• (US) enPR: wät, IPA^(key): /wɑt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt
• Homophones: wat, wot, what (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

watt (plural watts)

1. 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. Symbol: W

Derived terms

terms derived from watt

• picowatt
• nanowatt
• microwatt
• milliwatt

• kilowatt
• megawatt
• gigawatt
• terawatt

See also

• watt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

derived unit of power

• Afrikaans: watt
• Arabic: وَاط‏‎ m (wāṭ)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: vatiu m, watt m
• Belarusian: ват m (vat)
• Bulgarian: ват (bg) m (vat)
• Catalan: watt (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瓦特 (zh) (wǎtè)

• Czech: watt (cs)
• Danish: watt n
• Dutch: watt (nl)
• Esperanto: vatto, ŭato, vato
• Faroese: watt n
• Finnish: watti (fi)
• French: watt (fr) m
• Galician: vatio (gl) m, watt (gl) m
• Georgian: ვატი (vaṭi)
• German: Watt (de) n
• Greek: βατ (el) n (vat)
• Hebrew: ואט‏‎ (he)
• Hindi: वॉट (voṭ), वाट (hi) (vāṭ)
• Hungarian: watt (hu)
• Icelandic: vatt
• Ido: wato (io)
• Inari Sami: wattâ
• Italian: watt (it) m

• Japanese: ワット (ja) (watto)
• Khmer: វ៉ាត់ (vat)
• Korean: 와트 (wateu)
• Latvian: vats
• Lithuanian: vatas
• Macedonian: ват m (vat)
• Maori: wata
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: watt m

  Nynorsk: watt m

• Persian: وات‏‎ (fa) (vât)
• Polish: wat (pl) m
• Portuguese: watt (pt) m
• Russian: ватт (ru) m (vatt)
• Scottish Gaelic: uàt m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ват m

  Roman: vat (sh) m

• Slovak: watt m
• Spanish: vatio (es) m, watt (es) m
• Swedish: watt (sv) c
• Thai: วัตต์ (th) (wàt)
• Turkish: watt
• Ukrainian: ват (uk) m (vat)
• Urdu: واٹ‏‎ (vāṭ)
• Vietnamese: watt (vi)

Anagrams

• twat

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Asturian

Noun

watt m (plural watts)

1. watt (derived unit of power)

Synonyms

• vatiu

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʋɒt], [ʋɑt]

• Audio

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Noun

watt m (plural watts, diminutive wattje n)

1. watt

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wat/

• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

watt m (plural watts)

1. watt

Further reading

• “watt” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Galician

Noun

watt m (plural [please provide])

1. watt

Synonyms

• vatio

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Italian

Noun

watt m (invariable)

1. watt

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Named after the Scottish engineer James Watt.

Noun

watt m (definite singular watten, indefinite plural watt, definite plural wattene)

1. a watt (SI unit of power, symbol W)

Derived terms

• kilowatt
• megawatt

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Named after the Scottish engineer James Watt.

Noun

watt m (definite singular watten, indefinite plural watt, definite plural wattane)

1. a watt (as above)

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Portuguese

Noun

watt m (plural watts)

1. watt (derived unit of power)

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• vatio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa̠t/

Noun

watt m (plural watts)

1. watt

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Swedish

Noun

watt c

1. watt