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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. watt, Wnoun

   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

2. Watt, James Wattnoun

   Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819)

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1. wattnoun

   In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W

2. Wattnoun

   An English and Scottish surname derived from the given name Wat.

3. Etymology: Named after the Scottish engineer James Watt.

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1. WATT

   WATT (1240 AM, "News Talk 1240") is a radio station broadcasting a news-talk-sports format. Licensed to Cadillac, Michigan, it began broadcasting in 1946.

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1. watt

   A watt is a unit of power in the International System of Units (SI) that is defined as one joule per second. It is used to quantify the rate of energy transfer. Named after James Watt, a Scottish engineer, it expresses the rate of energy conversion or transfer with respect to time.

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1. Wattnoun

   a unit of power or activity equal to 107 C.G.S. units of power, or to work done at the rate of one joule a second. An English horse power is approximately equal to 746 watts

2. Etymology: [From the distinguished mechanician and scientist, James Watt.]

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1. Watt

   The watt is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units, named after the Scottish engineer James Watt. The unit, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion or transfer.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Watt

   wot, n. the practical unit of electrical activity or power—from James Watt (1736-1819).

The Standard Electrical DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Watt

   (a) The practical unit of electric activity, rate of work, or rate of energy. It is the rate of energy or of work represented by a current of one ampere urged by one volt electro-motive force; the volt-ampere. It is the analogue in electricity of the horse power in mechanics; approximately, 746 watts represent one electric horse power. Ohm's law, taken as C = E, gives as values for current, C and E, and for electro- motive force C R. In these formulas, C represents current strength, R represents resistance and E represents electro-motive force. Then a watt being the product of electro-motive force by current strength, we get the following values for rate of electric energy, of which the watt is the practical unit: (1) E2 -- (2) C*E -- (3) C2 * R. The equivalents of the watt vary a little according to different authorities. Ayrton gives the following equivalents: 44.25 foot pounds per minute--.7375 foot pounds per second--1/746 horse power. These values are practically accurate. Hospitalier gives .7377 foot pounds per second. Hering gives .737324 foot pounds per second, and 1000/745941 horse power. It is equal to 1E7 ergs per second. Synonym--Volt-ampere. (c) It has been proposed to use the term as the unit of energy, instead of activity or rate of energy (Sir C. W. Siemens, British Association, 1882); this use has not been adopted and may be regarded as abandoned. [Transcriber's note; Watt is a unit of POWER--energy per unit of time.]

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1. watt

   A unit of power.

   There were various watt lightbulbs at the shop.

   Submitted by MaryC on March 9, 2020

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1. WATT

   What does WATT stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the WATT acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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1. WATT

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Watt is ranked #2387 in terms of the most common surnames in America.The Watt surname appeared 15,211 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 5 would have the surname Watt.78.5% or 11,948 total occurrences were White.14.2% or 2,172 total occurrences were Black.2.6% or 399 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.2.2% or 335 total occurrences were of two or more races.1.3% or 208 total occurrences were Asian.0.9% or 151 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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1. twat

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of WATT in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of WATT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of WATT in a Sentence

1. Aldous Huxley:

   To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

2. Anis Aouini:

   This project that is planned for India consisting of 50 Saphonians producing 20 kilowatts of power, a total of one mega watt, will be a wind farm. This power produced in south India, could meet the demands of a small village of 1000 houses even if the energy will be directly injected to the general Indian electricity network. But it's an approximation to ease the understanding for viewers: it's about 1000 houses in India.

3. Cristiano Amon:

   You can't rely on big [data center] buildings with air conditioning, that's our bet - performance per watt leadership.

4. Jamal Hameedi:

   [ The Ranger Raptor ] really is the best handling pickup truck I’ve driven and not by an insignificant margin, the watt’s link and everything, I think it would go pretty well in America.

5. Sally Lyons Watt:

   Millennials really did start to change the way in which [ people ] eat, sally Lyons Watt definitely started to see smaller meals and or snacks... being consumed throughout the day.

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1. ^ Princeton's WordNethttp://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=WATT
2. ^ Wiktionaryhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Watt
3. ^ Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt
4. ^ ChatGPThttps://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionaryhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/WATT
6. ^ Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=WATT
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionaryhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=WATT
8. ^ The Standard Electrical Dictionaryhttps://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26535/pg26535-images.html#:~:text=WATT
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Recordshttps://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
10. ^ Usage in printed sourceshttps://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=WATT

Translations for WATT

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• واطArabic
• ватBelarusian
• ватBulgarian
• wattCatalan, Valencian
• wattCzech
• wattDanish
• WattGerman
• βατGreek
• vatto, ŭato, vatoEsperanto
• watt, vatioSpanish
• واتPersian
• wattiFinnish
• wattFaroese
• wattFrench
• uàtScottish Gaelic
• vatio, wattGalician
• ואטHebrew
• वाट, वॉटHindi
• wattHungarian
• vattIcelandic
• wattItalian
• ワットJapanese
• 와트Korean
• vatasLithuanian
• vatsLatvian
• ватMacedonian
• wattNorwegian
• wattNorwegian Nynorsk
• watPolish
• wattPortuguese
• ваттRussian
• ват, vatSerbo-Croatian
• wattSlovak
• wattSwedish
• wattTurkish
• ватUkrainian
• واٹUrdu
• wattVietnamese

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