| NOUN | quantity | watt, W | a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second |
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| person | Watt, James Watt | Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819) |
| Sounds | waa't | |
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| Rhymes | aforethought ... yacht: 79 rhymes with aat... | |
| Meaning | A unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm. | |
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| Synonym | W | |
| Part of | horsepower, HP, H.P. | A unit of power equal to 746 watts |
| kilowatt, kW | A unit of power equal to 1000 watts | |
| Parts | milliwatt | A unit of power equal to one thousandth of a watt |
| Broader | power unit | A measure of electric power |
| Spanish | vatio, wat, w | |
| Catalan | vat, wat, w | |
| Meaning | Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819). | |
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| Synonym | James Watt | |
| Instance of | engineer, applied scientist, technologist | A person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems |
| inventor, discoverer, artificer | someone who is the first to think of or make something | |
| Spanish | James Watt | |
| Catalan | James Watt | |
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