watt

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Recall a watt is a volt times an amp.

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  1. noun Electricity An International System unit of power equal to one joule per second. See Table at measurement.

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  • I chose this blender because it had a 450-watt, all-metal drive system. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • Most of the feedbacks depend on temperature and for all of them, a watt is a watt is a watt. —  RealClimate
  • Made up of three 1-watt, high-power LEDs, the PAR16 LED bulb is a direct drop-in replacement in standard E26 Edison-base PAR16 fixtures. —  LEDs Magazine Products
  • Sun is offering the 55 watt, 75 watt, and 105 watt versions of the chips in the X6240 blade, which has only 16 memory slots and only supports up to 64 GB maximum using 4 GB DDR2 main memory. —  Channel Register
  • The sound system is built around a pair of 10-watt, recessed speakers, so you can connect to your home theater system, for even bigger sound output! —  Newegg.com RSS Feed - Daily Deals
 

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  1. After James Watt.

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  1. So called from the Scottish engineer and inventor James Watt (1736-1819).
 

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