electric power

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   the product of voltage and current

   Synonymselectrical powerwattage

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Questions about electric power

What does electric power mean?

electric power means "the product of voltage and current".

What is another word for electric power?

Close synonyms include electrical power, wattage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is electric power a common word?

electric power is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.