POWER UNIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does power unit mean? 

• POWER UNIT (noun)
  The noun POWER UNIT has 1 sense:

1. a measure of electric power

  Familiarity information: POWER UNIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POWER UNIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A measure of electric power

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("power unit" is a kind of...):

electromagnetic unit; emu (any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "power unit"):

abwatt (a power unit equal to the power dissipated when 1 abampere flows across a potential difference of 1 abvolt (one ten-thousandth of a milliwatt))

milliwatt (a unit of power equal to one thousandth of a watt)

W; watt (a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm)

kilowatt; kW (a unit of power equal to 1000 watts)

megawatt (a unit of power equal to one million watts)

H.P.; horsepower; HP (a unit of power equal to 746 watts)

var; volt-ampere (a unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere)

kilovolt-ampere (a unit of electrical power equal to 1000 volt-amperes)