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Definition of Kilowatt hour

1. Noun. A unit of energy equal to the work done by a power of 1000 watts operating for one hour.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kilowatt Hour

Literary usage of Kilowatt hour

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by National Electric Light Association (1911)
"For alternating-current motors of one horse-power or over, 2 cents per kilowatt hour from 12.00 am (midnight of the previous day) to one-half bsur before ..."

2. Public Utilities Reports by Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols, Public Utilities Reports, inc (1918)
"4 cents per kilowatt hour for all electric energy consumed during the month in excess of ... Discount: A discount of 1 cent per kilowatt hour for the total ..."

3. Bulletin by Public Ownership League of America (1922)
"kilowatt hour maximum or retail. Elsewhere it costs 9 cents or three times as much. ... Its maximum rate is 6 cents per kilowatt hour which is just about ..."

4. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1906)
"sive years .025 cent per kilowatt-hour. Individual stations from .085 cent ... Two-hundredths cent per kilowatt-hour for cylinder oil ; kilowatt capacity. ..."

5. Annual Report by New Jersey Civil Service Commission (1910)
"Made change in meter rates on May 1, 1909, from a sliding scale to 5 cents per kilowatt hour, 10 per cent discount. E 21 Savre Electric Co. ..."

6. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1913)
"and multiplying by 100, or by dividing the cost of material only in Group " PE," by the cost of Production plus Production Repairs per kilowatt-hour as ..."

7. Transactions by European Orthodontic Society, Lina Oswald, Northern Ohio Dental Society, Ossory Archaeological Society, Wentworth Historical Society, Society of Automobile Engineers (1910)
"COST PER KILOWATT-YEAR AND KILOWATT-HOUR, AND EFFECT OF LOAD FACTOR ON PRICE ... Central station power at a definite price per kilowatt hour is a known ..."

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