different between horsepower vs kilowatt

English

Etymology

horse +? power: the unit was originally defined as the amount of power that a horse could provide.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: hôrs?pou'?r, IPA^(key): /?h??s?pa??/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hôs?pou'?, IPA^(key): /?h??s?pa??/

Noun

horsepower (countable and uncountable, plural horsepowers or horsepower)

1. (uncountable) Power derived from the motion of a horse.
   • 2003, Gavin Weightman, What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us (page 57)

     The wheel was to have been turned by horsepower, but it was adapted to be driven by a mill-wheel on the river Derwent […]

2. A non-metric unit of power (symbol hp) with various definitions, for different applications. The most common of them is probably the mechanical horsepower, approximately equal to 745.7 watts.
   • 2012 March 22nd, David Blockley, Engineering: A Very Short Introduction (309), Oxford University Press, ?ISBN, chapter 2: “The age of gravity – time for work”, page 20:

     In the past, before the widespread adoption of SI units, the work that engines were capable of doing was compared with the work that horses could do – hence the term ‘horsepower’. Various people came up with various equivalencies, but the modern agreed definition is that 1 horsepower is 746 joules per second or 746 watts.

3. A metric unit (symbol often PS from the German abbreviation), approximately equal to 735.5 watts.
4. (uncountable) Strength.

   political horsepower

Synonyms

• hp

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• shorepower

English

Alternative forms

• kilo-watt

Etymology

From kilo- +? watt

Noun

kilowatt (plural kilowatts)

1. One thousand (10³) watts.

Synonyms

• kW, KW, ?

Derived terms

• California kilowatt
• kilowatt alley
• kilowatt-hour

Translations

French

Etymology

From kilo- +? watt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki.l?.wat/

Noun

kilowatt m (plural kilowatts)

1. kilowatt

Derived terms

• kilowattheure

Italian

Etymology

kilo- +? watt

Noun

kilowatt m (invariable)

1. kilowatt

   Synonym: chilowatt

Portuguese

Etymology

From kilo- +? watt.

Noun

kilowatt m (plural kilowatts)

1. Alternative spelling of quilowatt

Romanian

Etymology

From French kilowatt

Noun

kilowatt m (plural kilowa?i)

1. kilowatt

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From kilo- +? watt.

Noun

kilowatt m (plural kilowatts)

1. kilowatt