wattless

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wattless - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Wattless \Watt"less\, a. (Elec.)
     Without any power (cf. Watt); -- 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.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]