kilowatt

/'kiləwɔt/

Thân thiện

A household electricity meter displays a usage of 1.2 kilowatts.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A unit of power equal to 1,000 watts: A kilowatt is a standard measurement of power, representing one thousand watts. It is commonly used to quantify the rate of energy transfer or usage, especially for electrical devices and systems.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • The air conditioner has a power rating of 1.5 kilowatts.
  • The solar panel array can generate up to five kilowatts of electricity.
  • Our household's average energy consumption is about 30 kilowatt-hours per day.

Advanced Usage

• "Kilowatt-hour (kWh)": A derived unit of energy representing the amount of energy consumed or produced when a power of one kilowatt is used for one hour. This is the standard unit for electricity billing.
  • My electricity bill shows we used 450 kilowatt-hours last month.

Variants and Related Words

• Kilowatt-hour (n): A unit of energy equal to one kilowatt of power sustained for one hour.
• Megawatt (n): A unit of power equal to one million watts or one thousand kilowatts.
• Watt (n): The base SI unit of power, upon which the kilowatt is based.

Synonyms

• kW (abbreviation): The standard abbreviation for kilowatt.
• Thousand watts: A descriptive synonym.

Related Phrases

(Note: As a scientific unit of measurement, "kilowatt" does not typically form phrasal verbs or idioms. Its usage is primarily technical.)

Học thuật

Noun

1. a unit of power equal to 1000 watts

Từ đồng nghĩa

• kw