kilovolt
- n a unit of potential equal to a thousand volts
- It was able to cut off its single, 115-kilovolt line to CANUSE in time.
- They hail the 765-kilovolt line as one of their industry's great new developments.
- In July 1996, some 2 million customers from Nebraska to Washington State to Baja California Norte in Mexico lost power when a 345 kilovolt line was shorted out by a tree in Idaho.