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watt-year

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English

Syllables
wat-t-year
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A unit of energy equal to that provided by one watt of power acting for one year (31·536 × 10⁶ joules).

Example Sentences

  • "Holonyms: gigajoule (1.000e9 J) < megawatt-hour (3.600e9 J) < kilowatt-year (31.536e9 J) < terajoule (1.000e12 J) < gigawatt-hour (3.600e12 J) < megawatt-year (31.536e12 J) < petajoule (1.000e15 J) < terawatt-hour (3.600e15 J) < gigawatt-year (31.536e15 J), exajoule (1.000e18 J) < petawatt-hour (3.600e18 J) < terawatt-year (31.536e18 J)"
  • "Meronyms: kilojoule (1.000e3 J) < watt-hour (3.600e3 J) < milliwatt-year (31.536e3 J) < megajoule (1.000e6 J) < kilowatt-hour (3.600e6 J)"

Inflected Forms

watt-years (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

mul:W·a mul:W a mul:Wa mul:W-a mul:W·y mul:W y mul:Wy mul:W-y

Questions

What does watt-year mean?
A unit of energy equal to that provided by one watt of power acting for one year (31·536 × 10⁶ joules).

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