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English

Etymology

Named after Scottish engineer James Watt. For the surname, see Watt.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /w?t/
• (US) enPR: wät, IPA^(key): /w?t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophones: wat, wot, what (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

watt (plural watts)

1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• watt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ATWT, at. wt., twat

Asturian

Etymology

From English watt

Noun

watt m (plural watts)

1. watt (derived unit of power)

Synonyms

• vatiu

Czech

Noun

watt m

1. watt (unit of power)

Further reading

• watt in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• watt in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??t], [??t]
• Homophones: wad, wat

Noun

watt m (plural watts, diminutive wattje n)

1. watt

French

Etymology

From English watt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wat/
• Homophone: ouate

Noun

watt m (plural watts)

1. watt

Further reading

• “watt” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Noun

watt m (plural [please provide])

1. watt

Synonyms

• vatio

Hungarian

Etymology

From English watt, named after Scottish engineer James Watt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?t?]
• Hyphenation: watt
• Rhymes: -?t?

Noun

watt (plural wattok)

1. watt (derived unit of power)

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• watt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

From English watt

Noun

watt m (invariable)

1. watt

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Named after the Scottish engineer James Watt.

Noun

watt m (definite singular watten, indefinite plural watt, definite plural wattene)

1. a watt (SI unit of power, symbol W)

Derived terms

• kilowatt
• megawatt
• wattsekund

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Named after the Scottish engineer James Watt.

Noun

watt m (definite singular watten, indefinite plural watt, definite plural wattane)

1. a watt (as above)

Derived terms

• wattsekund

Portuguese

Etymology

From English watt

Noun

watt m (plural watts)

1. watt (derived unit of power)

Romanian

Etymology

From French watt.

Noun

watt m (plural wa?i)

1. watt

Declension

Spanish

Alternative forms

• vatio

Etymology

From English watt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wat/, [?wat?]

Noun

watt m (plural watts)

1. watt

Swedish

Etymology

Named after Scottish engineer James Watt; for the surname see Watt.

Noun

watt c

1. watt

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?mp, IPA^(key): /æmp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

Noun

amp (countable and uncountable, plural amps)

1. (colloquial, countable) Short for ampere.
2. (colloquial, countable) Short for amplifier.
3. (colloquial, countable) Short for ampoule.
   • 1963, Washington (State). Legislature. Joint Committee on Governmental Cooperation, Report and Recommendations (page 45)

     The physician had included a note which said: "Dear Miss ........, I could not get the name of your friend over the phone so I am sending two prescriptions for Methedrine amps and one prescription for Drinalfa ten cc vials.

4. (colloquial, countable) Short for amputee.
5. (colloquial, uncountable) Short for ampicillin.

Verb

amp (third-person singular simple present amps, present participle amping, simple past and past participle amped)

1. (colloquial, usually with up) To amplify.

   He asked the disk jockey to amp it up.

2. (colloquial, usually with up) To excite.
   • 2012, Natalie Anderson, First Time Lucky? (page 78)

     In the distance, the music thumped, amping the crowd higher.

   • 2013, Hansi Lo Wang, Morning Edition, National Public Radio

     And it's raining, a little bit of drizzle, but the crowd is amped up and ready for a big event today.

3. (colloquial, usually with up) To intensify or increase.
   • 2003 CMJ New Music Monthly (number 115, page 42)

     Amping the Justin Timberlake cameos and revving up Jiggytron 5000, these Peas want to be on Middle America's fickle plate — losing little dread-whippin' imaginativeness in the wizzash.

   • 2014, Andy Paul, Amp Up Your Sales, AMACOM Books

Derived terms

• amp up

Translations

References

Anagrams

• APM, MAP, MPA, PAM, Pam, map, p.m.a., pam, pma

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch ambt, from Middle Dutch ampt, from Middle High German ambet, ambt (whence modern German Amt), from Old High German ambahti, from Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz, from Gaulish ambaxtos, from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amp/

Noun

amp (plural ampte)

1. An official position, a function, an office, a post.

Derived terms

• amptelik

Related terms

• ambag