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What does a Watt mean?

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1 watt = 1 joule per second

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The watt is not an 'electrical term' at all. It is simply the SI unit of measurement for power, which is the rate of doing work or of heat transfer.

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From The Fact Monster: (http://www.factmonster.com) watt [for James Watt], abbr. W, unit of power, or work done per unit time, equal to 1 joule per second. It is used as a measure of electrical and mechanical power. One watt is the amount of power that is delivered to a component of an electric circuit when a current of 1 ampere flows through the component and a voltage of 1 volt exists across it. The derivative units are kilowatt (1,000 W; kW) and megawatt (1,000,000 W; MW), used in electric power systems, and milliwatt (0.001 W; mW) and microwatt (0.000001 W; μW), used in electronics.

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Watt is the SI unit of Power. It is equivalent to one joule per second.

Or, one watt can be defined as the power or energy required to do 1 joule of work in one second.
A Watt is the SI unit of power, equivalent to one joule per second, corresponding to the power in an electric circuit in which the potential difference is one volt and the current one ampere
a watt is a unit of power equal to one joul per second.

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Unit of electrical power is watt. 1 watt is one 1watt electrical power

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It is the consumption that the fixture uses. It is found by multiplying the voltage the fixture operates on by the amperage the fixture draws.

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Watt is a unit of power - the rate at which energy gets generated, used, or transferred. 1 watt is defined as 1 joule per second.

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