Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantify the rate of energy transfer. The watt is named after James Wa ...
s is plural for ''watt'', the unit of power.
Watts may also refer to:
People
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Watts (surname) Watts is a surname, and may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Alaric Alexander Watts, British poet and journalist
* Caroline Watts, British artist
* Danièle Watts, American actress
* David G. Watts, British game designer
* George Frederic Wat ...
, list of people with the surname Watts
Fictional characters
*Watts, main character in the film ''
Some Kind of Wonderful''
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Watts family
The Watts family are a fictional family in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''. The family consists of Den Watts, Den (Leslie Grantham), Angie Watts, Angie (Anita Dobson), Sharon Watts, Sharon (Letitia Dean), Dennis Rickman, Dennis (Nigel Harman ...
, six characters in the TV series ''EastEnders''
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Curly Watts
Norman Arthur "Curly" Watts is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera '' Coronation Street'', from 1983 to 2003, and in a few spin-off DVDs in 2010. He was portrayed throughout by Kevin Kennedy.
Most of Curly's storylines dealt ...
, in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street''
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Peter Watts, in the TV series ''Millennium''
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Raquel Watts
Raquel Watts (also Wolstenhulme) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'', played by Sarah Lancashire from 23 January 1991 until 15 November 1996. Lancashire returned on 2 January 2000 for one episode.
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, in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street''
*Wade Owen Watts, protagonist in the novel ''
Ready Player One
''Ready Player One'' is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, set in a dystopia in 2045, follows protagonist Wade Watts on his search for an Easter egg in a worldwide virtual reality ga ...
'' and its
film adaption.
Places
United Kingdom
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Watts Bank
Watts Bank is a nature reserve south of Lambourn in Berkshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. It is designated a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest as White Shute.
Watts Bank is a s ...
, a nature reserve in Berkshire, England.
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Watts Hill
Watts Hill is a hill in the Dorset Downs and one of the highest in the county of Dorset, England. The height of the summit is variously recorded as 261 metresOrdnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger series, No. 194 or 262 metres.
Location
Watts Hil ...
, Dorset, England.
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Watts Mortuary Chapel
The Watts Cemetery Chapel or Watts Mortuary Chapel is a chapel in an Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) version of Celtic Revival in the village cemetery of Compton in Surrey. While the overall architectural structure is loosely Romanesque ...
, Surrey, England
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Watts Naval School
Watts Naval School was originally the Norfolk County School, a boarding school set up to serve the educational needs of the 'sons of farmers and artisans'. The school was later operated by Dr Barnardo's until closure in 1953.
History Norfolk ...
, Norfolk, England
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Watts Warehouse
Watts Warehouse is a large, ornate Victorian Grade II* listed building standing on Portland Street in the centre of Manchester, England. It opened in 1856 as a textile warehouse for the wholesale drapery business of S & J Watts, and was the la ...
, Manchester, England
United States
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Watts, Los Angeles
Watts is a neighborhood in southern Los Angeles, California. It is located within the South Los Angeles region, bordering the cities of Lynwood, Huntington Park and South Gate to the east and southeast, respectively, and the unincorporated comm ...
, California, a city district
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Watts, California
Watts, California, was a city of the sixth class that existed in Los Angeles County, California, between 1907 and 1926, when it was consolidated with the City of Los Angeles and became one of the neighborhoods in the southern part of that city.
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, former city that was supplanted by Watts, Los Angeles
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Watts Station
Watts Station is a train station built in 1904 in Watts, Los Angeles, California. It was one of the first buildings in Watts, and for many years, it was a major stop for the Pacific Electric Railway's "Red Car" service between Los Angeles and Lo ...
, historic train station in Watts, Los Angeles
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Watts Towers
The Watts Towers, Towers of Simon Rodia, or ''Nuestro Pueblo'' ("our town" in Spanish) are a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers, architectural structures, and individual sculptural features and mosaics within the site of the artis ...
, 17 sculptural towers in Watts, Los Angeles
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Watts, Oklahoma
Watts is a town in northern Adair County, Oklahoma, United States. It was named for John Watts, also known as Young Tassel, a Chickamauga Cherokee chief, who died in 1802.Hagan, Phyllis. ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. "Watts." ...
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Watts, Virginia
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Watts Bar Lake
Watts Bar Lake is a reservoir on the Tennessee River created by Watts Bar Dam as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority system.
Geography
Located in the U.S. state of Tennessee about midway between the cities of Chattanooga and Knoxville, the l ...
, Tennessee
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Watts Branch (Anacostia River)
Watts Branch is a tributary stream of the Anacostia River in Prince George's County, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.
Course
The headwaters of the stream originate in the Capitol Heights area of Prince George's County, and the branch flows roughl ...
, a tributary of the Anacostia in Maryland and the District of Columbia
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Watts Branch (Potomac River)
Watts Branch is a tributary stream of the Potomac River in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Course
The headwaters of the stream originate in the city of Rockville, and the branch flows southwest for ,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dat ...
, a tributary of the Potomac in Maryland
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Watts Building (Birmingham, Alabama)
Watts Building in Birmingham, Alabama, is an Art Deco building built in 1927. ''See also:'' It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's ...
, on the National Register of Historic Places
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Watts Community, Oklahoma
Watts Community is a former census-designated place (CDP) in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 500 at the 2000 census. The community was not recorded as a CDP in 2010.
Geography
The Watts Community CDP was located at (36 ...
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Watts Hospital
Watts Hospital, located in Durham, North Carolina was the city's first hospital, operating between 1895 and 1976.
The hospital opened in 1895, funded entirely by George W. Watts, as a private, 22-bed, modern hospital dedicated to the care of Durh ...
, the first hospital in Durham, North Carolina
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Watts Island Light
The Watts Island Light was a historic lighthouse located near Watts Island in the Chesapeake Bay. It was the only lighthouse built by John Donahoo outside of Maryland.
History
The island on which this light stood was originally called Little Watt ...
, a lighthouse in Chesapeake Bay
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Watts Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania
Watts Township is a township in Perry County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,231 at the 2020 census. Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 12.0 square miles (31.0 km2) ...
In space
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1798 Watts
1798 Watts, provisional designation , is a stony asteroid and binary system from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter.
It was discovered on 4 April 1949, by IU's Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link O ...
, an asteroid
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Watts (crater)
Watts is a small Lunar craters, lunar impact crater that is located at the extreme northern edge of the Mare Fecunditatis. It was named after American astronomer Chester Burleigh Watts. Just one crater diameter to the northwest is the irregular D ...
, on the Moon
In other places
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Watts River
The Watts River is a perennial river of the Port Phillip and Western Port catchment, located in the Healesville area, in the Central region of the Australian state of Victoria.
Location and features
The Watts River rises below Mount Vinegar in ...
, Victoria, Australia
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Watts Point Watts Point is a point in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, located on the eastern side of Howe Sound northwest of Britannia Beach.
See also
*Watts Point volcanic centre
The Watts Point volcanic centre is a small outcrop of Pleistocene age ...
, British Columbia, Canada
Businesses and organizations
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Watts & Co., an English architecture and interior design company founded in 1874
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Watts Gallery
Watts Gallery – Artists' Village is an art gallery in the village of Compton, near Guildford in Surrey. It is dedicated to the work of the Victorian-era painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts.
The gallery has been Grade II* listed on th ...
, an art gallery in Surrey, England
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Watts Line
The Watts Line was a local line of the Pacific Electric Railway that operated between the Pacific Electric Building in Downtown Los Angeles and the Watts Station at 103rd Street in Watts. It was the primary local service for the Southern District, ...
, former rail line in Los Angeles, California
Other uses
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USS ''Watts'' (DD-567), a U.S. Navy destroyer
* Watt's drill, a drill bit that is a type of
mortiser
A mortiser or morticer is a specialized woodworking machine used to cut square or rectangular holes in a piece of lumber (timber), such as a mortise in a mortise and tenon joint.
Square chisel mortiser
The square chisel mortiser (also called '' ...
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Watts family murders
In the early hours of August 13, 2018, in Frederick, Colorado, American oil field operator Christopher Lee Watts (born May 16, 1985) murdered his pregnant wife Shanann (34) by strangulation, and their two children Bella (4) and Celeste (3) by sm ...
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Watt's linkage
In kinematics, Watt's linkage (also known as the parallel linkage) is a type of mechanical linkage invented by James Watt in which the central moving point of the linkage is constrained to travel on a nearly straight line. It was described in W ...
, mechanical linkage invented by James Watt
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Watts riots, a 1965 civil disturbance in Watts, Los Angeles
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Watts truce
The Watts truce was a 1992 peace agreement among rival street gangs in Los Angeles, California, declared in the neighborhood of Watts. The truce was reached just days before the 1992 Los Angeles riots and, although not universally adhered to, was ...
, a 1992 peace agreement among rival street gangs in Watts, Los Angeles
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Watt (disambiguation)
The watt is a unit of power named after Scottish engineer James Watt.
Watt or WATT may also refer to:
People
* Watt (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
* Watt of Sussex, Anglo-Saxon king of Sussex who ruled between ab ...
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WATS (disambiguation) WATS may refer to:
* Warrick Area Transit System, a transit agency serving Warrick County, Indiana
* Wide Area Telephone Service, a phone service for U.S. telecommunications
* Wide Area Tracking System, a system for detecting ground-based nuclear ...
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WAT (disambiguation)
A wat is a monastery temple in Cambodia, Thailand or Laos.
Wat or WAT may also refer to:
People
* Wat (surname)
* Wat (given name), a list of people with the given name or nickname
Places
* List of wats in Thailand
* WAT, the IATA code for Wa ...
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