kilovolt

• kilo-volt

From kilo- +‎ volt.

kilovolt (plural kilovolts)

1. One thousand volts. Symbol: kV or KV.
   • 1999 October 21, Sally McGrane, “Getting Power to the People: The North American Electricity Grid”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Generators usually produce electricity at 7 kilovolts (a kilovolt is a thousand volts) to 25 kilovolts; transformers at the generators step up the voltage, to 60 kilovolts to 500 kilovolts, before sending the power into the grid.

• kilovolt-ampere

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kilovolt m (plural kilovolts)

1. kilovolt

• “kilovolt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From kilo- +‎ volt.

kilovolt m (invariable)

1. kilovolt

Borrowed from French kilovolt. By surface analysis, kilo- +‎ volt.

kilovolt m (plural kilovolți)

1. kilovolt

kilovolt

1. kilovolt.