Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Watt"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Watt \Watt\, n. [From the distinguished mechanician and
scientist, James Watt.] (Physics)
A unit of power or activity equal to 10^{7} C.G.S. units of
power, or to work done at the rate of one joule a second. An
English horse power is approximately equal to 746 watts.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
watt
n 1: 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 [syn: {W}]
2: Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the
steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819)
[syn: {Watt}, {James Watt}]
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