Megawatt

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One million (1 000 000) watts, an amount of power large enough to power such things as an entire commercial building or a small passenger aircraft. (Consuming 1 megawatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 megawatt-hour of energy.)

    "Holonyms: GW, gigawatt < TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt"

  2. 2
    a unit of power equal to one million watts wordnet

Synonyms

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kilowatt hourunit

Example

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"He says the sleek blades on his majestic wind machines can be as long as the wings on a passenger jet, and one machine can generate over a megawatt of power enough to supply all the electricity for 500 homes, day in and day out."

Etymology

From mega- + watt.

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