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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
kilowatt
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
kilowatt hour
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hour
▪ The Building Research Establishment give the following figures for the emission of carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour for different energy sources.
▪ This year there are 10 suppliers charging an average of 5.9 cents a kilowatt hour.
▪ It used capacity charges to directly recoup costs of building plant, and then it sold electricity by the kilowatt hour.
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▪ A coal-water facility has been assigned the $ 11 per kilowatt figure for a coal-oil mixture plant.
▪ For example, 500, 000 was used in generating the cost per kilowatt of coal-natural gas units.
▪ For four additional options considered, boiler conversion costs are estimated at $ 47 per kilowatt.
▪ It takes about a kilowatt per person to maintain a technologically advanced civilization with a high standard of living.
▪ People who are behind with their electricity bills could find themselves restricted to a consumption of as little as one kilowatt.
▪ The coal-water mixture approach is assigned a $ 20 per kilowatt figure.
▪ The plant affected, a 500,000 kilowatt pressurized light water reactor, began operation in 1972.
▪ This is a saving compared to the $ 116 per kilowatt figure for a new coal boiler.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kilowatt

Kilowatt \Kil"o*watt\, n. [See Kilogram and Watt.] (Elec.) One thousand watts.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
kilowatt

1884, from kilo- + watt. Kilowatt hour is from 1892. Related: Kilowattage.

Wiktionary
kilowatt

n. One thousand ( 103 ) watts. Symbol: kW or KW.

WordNet
kilowatt

n. a unit of power equal to 1000 watts [syn: kW]

Wikipedia
Kilowatt (album)

Kilowatt is an album by jazz fusion guitarist Kazumi Watanabe, originally released on audio cassette in 1989. In 1991 it was released again on cassette, CD and LP.

Usage examples of "kilowatt".

As the demand for aluminum increased, and other industries increased their demand for electricity, the power plant could raise the price, perhaps reaching or even exceeding the pre-Ring of Fire standard industrial rate of four cents a kilowatt hour.

For the cost of electricity, I would assume one to four cents per kilowatt hour.

He wheeled Kilowatt, pulled out his gun, and rode hard straight for her.

Just from the power it contains, that coil is worth about forty dollars right now, figured at a quarter of a cent per kilowatt hour.

The prototype M2P2 device would require 1-2 kilowatts of continuous power when in operation to create and sustain the plasma bubble.

An hour ago the last ready reserve-twin gas turbines at a power plant near Fresno, 65,ooo kilowatts each-bad had its status raised to 11 spinning.

Big Lil-Lilien Industries of Pennsylvania built the huge machine and a news writer coined the descriptive name which stuck-was a monster delivering a million and a quarter kilowatts of electric power.

Light proposed to build at Tunipah was an enormous generating plant, capable of producing more than five million kilowatts of electricity-enough to supply six cities the size of San Francisco.

That last week our peak load was twenty-two million kilowatts, and demand is growing by a million kilowatts a year.

Combined output of the generators was, at this moment, better than seven hundred thousand kilowatts, more than enough electricity to sustain a major city.

The steam, in turn, rotated a turbine generator wbich-along with other boilers and turbines at Cberokee-supplied almost three quarters of a million kilowatts to power-hungry Denver and environs.

L would be deprived of seven hundred thousand kilowatts from its normally reliable geothermal source, and would need to find an equivalent amount of power elsewhere.

L transmission system was deprived, without warning, of three million two hundred thousand kilowatts of power, at a time when the utility was operating with a thin reserve, and on a warm May afternoon with load demand unseasonably high because of widespread use of air-conditioners.

His answer indicated that approximately a total of two billion kilowatts were available.

Sterilizing Reddy Kilowatt in roentgens of radioactive glow in a dark playhouse.