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watt
1[ wot ]
noun
- the standard unit of power in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one joule per second and equal to the power in a circuit in which a current of one ampere flows across a potential difference of one volt. : W, w.
Watt
2[ wot ]
noun
- James, 1736–1819, Scottish engineer and inventor.
watt
1/ wɒt /
noun
- the derived SI unit of power, equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a potential difference of 1 volt. 1 watt is equivalent to 1.341 × 10 –3horsepower W
Watt
2/ wɒt /
noun
- WattJames17361819MScottishTECHNOLOGY: engineerTECHNOLOGY: inventor James. 1736–1819, Scottish engineer and inventor. His fundamental improvements to the steam engine led to the widespread use of steam power in industry
Watt
1- British engineer and inventor who patented a much improved version of the steam engine (1769) and devised the unit of horsepower. The watt unit of power is named for him.
watt
2/ wŏt /
- The SI derived unit used to measure power, equal to one joule per second. In electricity, a watt is equal to current (in amperes) multiplied by voltage (in volts).
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Example Sentences
Watt never did anything to regain his position, although it bothered him for the rest of his life.
Not really, according to Andrew Watt, the president and CEO of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP).
He was a beautiful child, sweet natured, affectionate, with cocoa-colored skin and a thousand-watt smile.
Blanche was a fragile white moth beating against the unbreakable sides of a 1000 watt bulb.
A potential sociopath with a hundred-watt smile, Bob is essentially Don Draper 2.0, except totally different.
The statue in Ratcliffe Place was subscribed for in 1867, and the figure is very like the portrait of Watt.
Watt's first pumping engine was started at Bloomfield Colliery, March 8, 1776.
The cost of erection and the consumption of coal are not above one-third of a Boulton and Watt's, to perform the same work.
Its first cost and expense in working to be much less than that of the Watt low-pressure steam vacuum engine.
People used to say that she forked the mine better than two of Boulton and Watt's 80-inch cylinder engines.
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