kilowatt-hour

English

Noun

kilowatt-hour (plural kilowatt-hours)

a unit of energy equal to that done by one kilowatt acting for one hour

Usage notes

The unit is often used to measure electrical consumption (on an electricity meter), for which domestic consumers are charged

Synonyms

(units of electricity): kWh, kW-hr, kWhr

Coordinate terms

TWyr / TW-yr (terawatt-year)

Translations

unit of energy

Chinese:
Mandarin: 千瓦時, 千瓦时 (qiānwǎshí), 千瓦小時, 千瓦小时 (qiānwǎ xiǎoshí)
Czech: kilowatthodina f
Finnish: kilowattitunti (fi)
French: kilowatt-heure m, kilowattheure (fr) m
German: Kilowattstunde (de) f
Greek: κιλοβατώρα (el) f (kilovatóra)
Hungarian: kilowattóra (hu)
Italian: chilowattora (it) m
Japanese: キロワット時 (kirowattoji)
Lao: ໜ່ວຍ (nuaj)

Macedonian: киловат-час m (kílovat-čas)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kilowattime m, kilowatt-time m

Nynorsk: kilowattime m, kilowatt-time m
Polish: kilowatogodzina (pl) f
Portuguese: quilowatt-hora m
Romanian: kilowat-oră m
Russian: килова́тт-час (ru) m (kilovátt-čas)
Spanish: kilovatio-hora m
Swedish: kilowattimme (sv) c

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