(n.) A unit of power or activity equal to 107 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
(2) Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, welcomed Target’s shift in policy.
(3) Twenty watts constant wave Nd-YAG laser operating at 1.06 micron was enough to produce complete A-V block in approximately 15 sec.
(4) The data shows the power (watts) delivered by the monopolar probe to be approximately six times that of the bipolar probe.
(5) Furthermore, a significant correlation between maximal creatine kinase levels and plasma ANF levels at a 75-watt workload and a significant inverse correlation between left ventricular ejection fraction and plasma ANF levels at a 75-watt workload were observed.
(6) This is a report on our experience with the EPICS C (Coultronics) cytometric flux apparatus, a screening cell analyzer, employing a laser ray (2 or 5 watts); we obtained good results to analyze immunologically-tagged mononuclear blood cells with or without prior separation: for rhythm, repeatability, and contamination.
(7) Power (25 watts) was delivered via the Primus (Technomatix) transrectal microwave applicator with simultaneous cooling of the rectal mucosa (between 12 and 14C).
(8) When Watts Bar 2 is fully operational, it will be the 100th operating nuclear power plant in the US, the country with the most nuclear power stations in the world.
(9) He said Watts was a “pleasant lady” but described Wright as a “cold fish Craig”.
(10) Busy job so no good for @ patrickwintour — Nicholas Watt (@nicholaswatt) June 14, 2012 3.18pm: Cameron says it would be "overbureaucratic" to make a note of every time a politician met an editor.
(11) In a swipe at Corbyn, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, addressing the meeting, said: “Never forget, the best way to represent and deliver for working people will always be from the government benches.” After the meeting, the former Labour MP Lord Watts confronted Seumas Milne, Corbyn’s head of communications, and told him he was “a disgrace”.
(12) I can't make myself into a big, powerful rider who can put out 300 watts per hour.
(13) Like a great many people in what was at that time an industrial country, I grew up in a landscape that was interestingly pockmarked with successive eras of exploitation, and all of it so commonplace that beyond a mention of its origins, Watt's engine or Crompton's spinning mule, it never found a place in the history books.
(14) What was it that they saw or heard that threatened our society,” Labor MP Tim Watts asked in response to the Christensen motion.
(15) The application of argon blue-green laser treatment at 0.1 watt for 60 seconds at two adjacent points on a feeder vessel was found to give rise to permanent vascular occlusion without causing complications.
(16) Photograph: Alan Richardson for the Guardian Watt’s wife, Johanna Basford, whose rise has neatly paralleled his (she is the author and illustrator of a phenomenally successful series of adult colouring books that have so far sold 15m copies) also told me at the launch: “They work harder than anyone I know.
(17) In an open-paired comparison, sunscreens with low, medium and high SPF were examined under identical test conditions using either a 150-watt xenon-arc solar simulator or a set of four 300-watt Osram Ultravitalux bulbs as the UV source.
(18) Trade union membership and political affiliation are classified as sensitive information by the law and require a greater level of protection than simply personal information,” Watts said.
(19) To determine the effects and the underlying mechanisms of sudden rise of impedance during radiofrequency (RF) catheter ablation, 60 RF applications were delivered to isolated preparations of ventricular myocardium at three different power levels (mean: 3.7, 11.3, 19.3 watts).
(20) The authors made a histopathological study of 53 haemorrhagic ulcers of the gastric mucosa of the dog, photocoagulated using an Argon laser apparatus (delivering a power of 6 watts at the tip of the fibre).
What
Definition:
(pron., a., & adv.) As an interrogative pronoun, used in asking questions regarding either persons or things; as, what is this? what did you say? what poem is this? what child is lost?
(pron., a., & adv.) As an exclamatory word: -- (a) Used absolutely or independently; -- often with a question following.
(pron., a., & adv.) Used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!
(pron., a., & adv.) Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys!
(pron., a., & adv.) As a relative pronoun
(pron., a., & adv.) Used substantively with the antecedent suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those [things] which; -- called a compound relative.
(pron., a., & adv.) Used adjectively, equivalent to the . . . which; the sort or kind of . . . which; rarely, the . . . on, or at, which.
(pron., a., & adv.) Used adverbially in a sense corresponding to the adjectival use; as, he picked what good fruit he saw.
(pron., a., & adv.) Whatever; whatsoever; what thing soever; -- used indefinitely.
(pron., a., & adv.) Used adverbially, in part; partly; somewhat; -- with a following preposition, especially, with, and commonly with repetition.
(n.) Something; thing; stuff.
(interrog. adv.) Why? For what purpose? On what account?