kilowatt

• n. [电] 千瓦（功率单位）

kilo-,千，watt,瓦。

1. a unit of power equal to 1000 watts

kilowatt (n.)

1884, from kilo- + watt. Kilowatt hour is from 1892. Related: Kilowattage.

The residents are billed by "net metering": they pay for the amount of power they tap off the grid, less the kilowatts (千瓦) they feed into it.

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According to Harry Vallentine, a Canadian engineer who is researching modern steam technology, a special tank measuring 2 by 10 metres could store over 750 kilowatt hours of energy as high pressure steam, enough to pull a two-cart train for an hour or so.

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...a prototype system which produces 25 kilowatts of power.

功率为25千瓦的原型系统

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At last, The trial of mine sweeping by using kilowatt class fiber laser was presented.

最后介绍了利用所研制的千瓦级大功率光纤激光器进行扫雷的试验.

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The most important advantage of the gasoline engine is its lower weight per kilowatt.

汽油机最重要的优点是每千瓦的质量较轻.

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They pay thirty fen per kilowatt hour.

他们每度电付三角钱.

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To reach the 100 kilowatt target, the laser will require six modules.

为了达到100千瓦目标, 激光发生器将要求有六个模块.

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A kilowatt is 1000 watt.

一千瓦等于一千瓦特.

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The design already has generated a 20 kilowatt laser beam using one module.

只用一个模块,这个设计就已经产生出20千瓦激光束.

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The watt is a small unit of power so that we use the kilowatt instead.

瓦特是小功率的单位,因此我们用千瓦代之.

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It creates four times more jobs per kilowatt hour generated than fossil fuel such as coal.

它每千瓦时能产生相当于煤等固体燃料四倍的能量.

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A common misconception is that there is something inherently electrical about a watt or kilowatt.

通常有一个错误的认识,以为瓦和千瓦是专门用在电上的.

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Where the watt is too small a unit, we many use the kilowatt.

在用瓦作单位嫌太小的情况下, 我们用千瓦.

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Wave energy right now we are estimating is around fifty cents a kilowatt an hour.

据我们估计,海浪能达到每小时50千瓦左右.

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