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kilovolts
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Units of electric potential difference, each equal to one thousand volts, used especially to measure high voltages.
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The transmission lines carry electricity at several hundred kilovolts.
The X-ray machine operates at about eighty kilovolts.
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Abbreviated 'kV'; power grids and medical imaging equipment are commonly rated in kilovolts.
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