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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An instrument for measuring in watts the power flowing in a circuit.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An instrument for measuring in watts the rate of working or the activity in an electric circuit.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Physics) An instrument for measuring power in watts, -- much used in measuring the energy of an electric current.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An instrument for measuring electric power in watts.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an instrument for measuring in watts the flow of power in an electrical circuit

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watt +‎ -meter

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