name
Meaning 1
Watt, a king of Sussex.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
watt
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /wɒt/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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US: wät
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US: /wɑt/
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rhymes with -ɒt
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homophone: wat
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homophone: wot
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homophone: what (Received Pronunciation, wine–whine merger)
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CMU ARPABET: W AA1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
An Anglo-Saxon given name.
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name
Meaning 3
A diminutive of the male given name Walter, of medieval usage, variant of Wat.
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name
Meaning 4
An English and Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
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name
Meaning 5
A ghost town in California, United States.
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noun
Meaning 6
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.
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noun
Meaning 7
Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: James Watt
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Broader terms: engineer, applied scientist, technologist, inventor, discoverer, artificer
noun
Meaning 8
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: W
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: power unit
History
Etymology
Named after Scottish engineer James Watt. For the surname, see Watt.
Across languages
Translations
85 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: watt — derived unit of power
- Albanian: vat — derived unit of power
- Amharic: ዋት (wat) — derived unit of power
- Arabic: وَاط (wāṭ) — derived unit of power
- Armenian: վատտ (vatt) — derived unit of power
- Asturian: vatiu — derived unit of power
- Asturian: watt — derived unit of power
- Azerbaijani: vatt — derived unit of power
- Belarusian: ват (vat) — derived unit of power
- Bengali: ওয়াট (ōẇaṭ) — derived unit of power
- Bulgarian: ват (vat) — derived unit of power
- Burmese: ဝပ် (wap) — derived unit of power
- Catalan: watt — derived unit of power
- Chinese Mandarin: 瓦特 (wǎtè) — derived unit of power
- Czech: watt — derived unit of power
- Danish: watt — derived unit of power
- Dutch: watt — derived unit of power
- Esperanto: vatto — derived unit of power
- Esperanto: ŭato — derived unit of power
- Esperanto: vato — derived unit of power
- Estonian: vatt — derived unit of power
- Faroese: watt — derived unit of power
- Finnish: watti — derived unit of power
- French: watt — derived unit of power
- Galician: vatio — derived unit of power
- Galician: watt — derived unit of power
- Georgian: ვატი (vaṭi) — derived unit of power
- German: Watt — derived unit of power
- Greek: βατ (vat) — derived unit of power
- Hebrew: וָאט (vat) — derived unit of power
- Hindi: वॉट (vŏṭ) — derived unit of power
- Hindi: वाट (vāṭ) — derived unit of power
- Hungarian: watt — derived unit of power
- Icelandic: vatt — derived unit of power
- Ido: wato — derived unit of power
- Indonesian: watt — derived unit of power
- Italian: watt — derived unit of power
- Japanese: ワット (watto) — derived unit of power
- Kazakh: ватт (vatt) — derived unit of power
- Khmer: វ៉ាត់ (vat) — derived unit of power
- Korean: 와트 (wateu) — derived unit of power
- Northern Kurdish: watt — derived unit of power
- Kyrgyz: ватт (vatt) — derived unit of power
- Lao: ວັດ (wat) — derived unit of power
- Latvian: vats — derived unit of power
- Lithuanian: vatas — derived unit of power
- Macedonian: ват (vat) — derived unit of power
- Malay: watt — derived unit of power
- Māori: wata — derived unit of power
- Mongolian: ватт (vatt) — derived unit of power
- Mongolian: ᠸᠠᠲ᠋ᠲ᠋ (watt) — derived unit of power
- Norwegian Bokmål: watt — derived unit of power
- Norwegian Nynorsk: watt — derived unit of power
- Pashto: واټ — derived unit of power
- Persian: وات (vât) — derived unit of power
- Polish: wat — derived unit of power
- Portuguese: watt — derived unit of power
- Romanian: watt — derived unit of power
- Russian: ватт (vatt) — derived unit of power
- Inari-Sami: wattâ — derived unit of power
- Scottish Gaelic: uàt — derived unit of power
- Serbo-Croatian: ва̏т — derived unit of power
- Serbo-Croatian: vȁt — derived unit of power
- Sicilian: watt — derived unit of power
- Slovak: watt — derived unit of power
- Slovene: vat — derived unit of power
- Spanish: vatio — derived unit of power
- Spanish: watt — derived unit of power
- Spanish: watio — derived unit of power
- Swahili: wati — derived unit of power
- Swedish: watt — derived unit of power
- Tagalog: watt — derived unit of power
- Tajik: ватт (vatt) — derived unit of power
- Tatar: ватт (watt) — derived unit of power
- Thai: วัตต์ (wàt) — derived unit of power
- Turkish: watt — derived unit of power
- Turkmen: watt — derived unit of power
- Ukrainian: ват (vat) — derived unit of power
- Urdu: واٹ (vāṭ) — derived unit of power
- Uyghur: ۋات (wat) — derived unit of power
- Uzbek: vatt — derived unit of power
- Vietnamese: watt — derived unit of power
- Vietnamese: oát — derived unit of power
- Vietnamese: oat — derived unit of power
- Yiddish: וואַט (vat) — derived unit of power