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kilowatt hour
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun kilowatt hour has 1 sense
- kilowatt hour(n = noun.quantity) b.t.u., board of trade unit, kw-hr - a unit of energy equal to the work done by a power of 1000 watts operating for one hour; Array is a kind of energy unit, heat unit, work unit
has parts: watt-hour
CIDE DICTIONARY
kilowatt hour,
A unit of work or energy equal to that done by one kilowatt acting for one hour; -- approximately equal to 1.34 horse-power hour. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
THESAURUS
kilowatt hour
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