kilowatt-hour

English

Noun

kilowatt-hour (plural kilowatt-hours)

1. (electricity) A unit of energy equal to that done by one kilowatt acting for one hour.

Usage notes

The unit is often used to measure electrical consumption on an electricity meter, for which domestic consumers are charged.

Synonyms

• (units of electricity): kWh, kW-hr, kWhr

Coordinate terms

• TWyr / TW-yr (terawatt-year)

Translations

unit of energy

• Belarusian: кілава́т-гадзі́на f (kilavát-hadzína)
• Bulgarian: килова́тча́с (bg) m (kilovátčás)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 千瓦時／千瓦时 (qiānwǎshí), 千瓦小時／千瓦小时 (qiānwǎ xiǎoshí)

• Czech: kilowatthodina f
• Danish: kilowatt-time c, kilowattime c
• Finnish: kilowattitunti (fi)
• French: kilowatt-heure (fr) m, kilowattheure (fr) m
• German: Kilowattstunde (de) f
• Greek: κιλοβατώρα (el) f (kilovatóra)
• Hungarian: kilowattóra (hu)
• Icelandic: kílóvattstund f
• Italian: chilowattora (it) m
• Japanese: キロワット時 (kirowattoji)
• Lao: ໜ່ວຍ (nuāi)
• Macedonian: киловат-час m (kilovat-čas)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kilowattime m, kilowatt-time m

  Nynorsk: kilowattime m, kilowatt-time m

• Polish: kilowatogodzina (pl) f
• Portuguese: quilowatt-hora m
• Romanian: kilowatt-oră (ro) m
• Russian: килова́тт-час (ru) m (kilovátt-čas)
• Spanish: kilovatio-hora m
• Swedish: kilowattimme (sv) c
• Turkish: kilovat saat (tr)
• Ukrainian: кілова́т-годи́на (uk) f (kilovát-hodýna)