wattless

English

adj
Definitions
  • Without any electrical power; said of an alternating current or component of current when it differs in phase by ninety degrees from the electromotive force which produces it, or of an electromotive force or component thereof when the current it produces differs from it in phase by 90 degrees.

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Suffix from English watt.

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watt

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