KILOJOULE Antonyms

• a unit of work equal to a force of one pound moving through a distance of one foot

• a unit of work equal to the work done by one horsepower in one hour

• English physicist who established the mechanical theory of heat and discovered the first law of thermodynamics (1818-1889)

• a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second

• a unit of heat equal to 100,000 British thermal units

• Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819)

• a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm

• a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure; equivalent to 251.997 calories

• unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure