Kilowatt (kW),

Definition of Kilowatt (kW):

1. Standard unit of electrical power equal to 1000 watts, 1.34 horsepower, or an energy consumption rate of 1000 joules per second.

2. A measure of one thousand watts of electrical power.

How to use Kilowatt (kW) in a sentence?

1. Preparing for them each week requires forests of paper, quarried hillsides of chalk and untold kilowatts of electricity to power overhead lights and VCRs.
2. It was a ten kilowatt charger and that was really great because we had a lot of items that needed to be charged.
3. Electric companies will often round a bill up to the closest kilowatt hour on a monthly statement even when rounding down would have made more sense.
4. The kilowatt per hour usage on the new materials warehouse was slightly lower than what we had predicted so that helped us turn a profit.