A unit of potential equal to a thousand volts

Usage examples of kilovolt.

Transformer stations fed energy from the 200 kilovolt circuit into the 1,500 volt trolley bars that ran down the center of the roadbed.

My thesis adviser said something similar when I repaired a hundred kilovolt Cockroft Walton on the fly with a bobby pin at three a.

DC voltage from any AC input up to a kilovolt at any frequency from fifty hertz to a kilohertz.

We have a block of aluminum, room temperature, and we suddenly raise its energy to two kilovolts by some nearby .

The entire pump is placed in a strong magnetic field, and a potential of about five kilovolts is impressed between the cathodes and the anode to accelerate electrons present in the residual gas toward the anode.

But that had two hundred kilovolts and four hundred kilogunts behind it.

Two hundred kilovolts and four hundred kilogunts, backed by all the stuff of the Prime and Op fields and the full power of the engines.

How could you possibly give a head of hair a static charge of fifty or a hundred kilovolts and not have it leak off?

This was a late-twentieth-century electronic discovery that could accept hundreds of kilovolts in a hundredth of a microsecond and could discharge it at any rate from a tenth of a volt to one hundred kilovolts.

We have a block of aluminum, room temperature, and we suddenly raise its energy to two kilovolts by some nearby .

Kilovolts and microamps per meter: someone had just dumped a huge electromagnetic pulse through the walls.

Settings were okay—84 kilovolts, 200 milliamps, exposure time fifteen hundredths of a second.