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WATT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819)
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Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
applied scientist; engineer; technologist (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)
artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)
Sense 2
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
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("watt" is a kind of...):
power unit (a measure of electric power)
Meronyms (parts of "watt"):
milliwatt (a unit of power equal to one thousandth of a watt)
Holonyms ("watt" is a part of...):
kilowatt; kW (a unit of power equal to 1000 watts)
H.P.; horsepower; HP (a unit of power equal to 746 watts)
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