watts
- 1Plural of watt.
The amplifier delivers four hundred watts across both channels.
Solar panels on the roof generate several thousand watts on a clear day.
Note
A perfectly regular plural for the unit of power: one watt, sixty watts. Spelled out, the unit takes its -s; written as its symbol, it never does, so sixty watts is 60 W, not 60 Ws. Before a noun the measure stays singular and hyphenated, as in a 60-watt bulb. With a capital, Watt is something else entirely: a surname, a king of Sussex, a medieval pet form of Walter.
watts is a form of watt
watt, noun: In the International System of Units, the unit of power, equal to one joule of energy transferred per second; written with the symbol W. Full entry
- Forms
- wattwatts plural
- Spelling
- watt → watts: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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