Usually means: Inventor, improved steam engine significantly.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. james watt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. James Watt: Merriam-Webster
  3. Watt, James: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Watt, James: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. James Watt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Watt, James: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. James Watt, Watt, James: Dictionary.com
  8. James Watt (Royal Navy officer), James Watt (brewery owner), James Watt (diplomat), James Watt (disambiguation), James Watt (inventor), James Watt (loyalist), James Watt, James watt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. James watt: Rhymezone
  10. james watt: FreeDictionary.org
  11. james watt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. James Watt, Watt, James: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. Watt, James, James Watt: Who2

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Watt, James: CCI Computer
  2. James Watt, Watt, James: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Watt, James: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (James Watt)

noun:  James Watt (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.
noun:  a Scottish engineer and inventor of a revolutionary new steam engine.
noun:  James Watt also known as Tonto (born 21 September 1952)Dillon, Martin.
noun:  James Wilfrid Watt CVO (born 5 November 1951) is a British former diplomat who was ambassador to Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt.
noun:  James Watt WS FRSE FRSGS LLD (21 March 1863–3 December 1945) was a 19th/20th-century Scottish lawyer, actuary and geographer.


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