kilovolt-ampere

1. 1.

   a unit of electrical power equal to 1000 volt-amperes

   Broaderpower unit

   Partsvolt-ampere

Questions about kilovolt-ampere

What does kilovolt-ampere mean?

kilovolt-ampere means "a unit of electrical power equal to 1000 volt-amperes".

How many syllables are in kilovolt-ampere?

kilovolt-ampere has 5 syllables and divides as ki-lo-vol-t-am-pere under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is kilovolt-ampere a common word?

kilovolt-ampere 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.