Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Electricity An International System unit of power equal to one joule per second. See Table at measurement.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The practical unit of electrical activity or power. T he watt is equal to 10 ergs per second, or the same number of absolute c. g. s. units of electrical activity; or it is the rate of working in a circuit when the E. M. F. is one volt and the current oue ampere. One horse-power is equal to 746 watts.
Wiktionary
- n. 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
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Physics) A unit of power or activity equal to 107 C.G.S. units of power, or to work done at the rate of one joule a second. An English horse power is approximately equal to 746 watts.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm
- n. Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819)
Etymologies
- Named after the Scottish engineer James Watt. (Wiktionary)
- After James Watt. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“(Lumens per watt is similar to miles per gallon - the higher the number represents greater efficiency)”
“The cost per watt is an estimate of one study likely using only two current examples from industry.”
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“Lumens-per-watt is the standard used by the lighting industry to measure the conversion of electrical energy to light.”
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“A watt is a watt, be it delivered at a potential difference of 110 volts, 220 volts, or 440 volts.”
“A watt is a unit of measure equal to the power produced by a current of 1 amp across the potential difference of 1 volt.”
“To calculate the value of Planck's constant, they are using a high-tech laboratory scale known as a watt balance.”
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“A number of experts argue that in twenty years pushing existing technology, solar will be less than fifty cents per installed watt, which is the cheapest energy there can be.”
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“The watt is a common unit of electrical power, in which case one watt of power is expended when one ampere of direct current flows through a resistance of one ohm.”
“The product V · A is called watt in honour of the English physicist James Watt (1736 - 1819).”
“The lower manufacturing cost per watt translates into the ability to sell at a lower cost into the marketplace. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘watt’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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people commonly known by their last name
inspired by people commonly known by their first name: people are more likely to know their last name than their first: not famous enough to be eponyms though
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So You Want To Save Some Energy?
Words related to energy, and the saving thereof.
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lasers
words associated with LASERS.
( open list, randomness )
NOTE: i'd like to keep the list specific to the LASER itself (Any LASER), and leave out applied sciences..
sp...electromagnetism, light, wavelength, phase, frequency, polarization, emission, optical, spectroscopy, lase, crystal, projection and 61 more...
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It's Electric!
I get a charge out of these words.
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shock
words associated with electric shock.
high voltage, spark, Tesla, tesla coil, arcing, current, macroshock, resistance, Ohm's law, conductive, current flow, muscular spasms and 18 more...
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Hiroe's Words
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The List Of Words That Rewrote The Hi...
Ah, yeah, this is a list of words that I think sound pretty funny... or dumb, either way, I like 'em so, yeah.
flabergasted, smash, wang, wordie, drum, rumplestiltskin, resistance, watt, hindu, universal serial bus, bearing, nematode and 138 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
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Week 3
isolate, joint, modify, specific, specifications, component, document, flux residue, volt, voltage, laser, pca and 3 more...
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Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary l...
Judging from my French-English dictionary, which devotes only a page and a half to entries beginning with the letters W-Z, French has at least four candidates for the designation "unnecessary lette...
zut, zozoter, zozo, zoom, zoologique, zoologie, zoo, zoner, zone, zonard, zona, zodiaque and 54 more...
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measure my words
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person or measurement
By 'or' I mean 'and'
angstrom, becquerel, biot, centimorgan, coulomb, curie, dalton, debye, decibel, celsius, fahrenheit, eotvos and 28 more...
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measurements
c, kelvin, celcius, fahrenheit, foot, inch, metre, ohm, volt, ampere, watt, gram and 14 more...
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water
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