megawatt

• mega-watt

From mega- +‎ watt.

megawatt (plural megawatts)

2. 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.)

   Alternative form: MW (symbol)

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

   Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt < kW, kilowatt

   • 2004, Jesse Walker, Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America, page 197:

     Not long after the feds started regulating radio, Mexico's megawatt border blasters—high-powered stations planted just south of Texas and California—started beckoning. The FCC couldn't control them […]

   • 2007 July 25, Felicity Barringer, “California Utility Agrees to Buy Power Generated by Solar Array”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 — Pacific Gas & Electric, Northern California’s major utility, is announcing a commitment on Wednesday to purchase 550 megawatts of solar power to be generated by troughlike arrays of mirrors spread over nine square miles in the Mojave Desert.

• Attributive use modifying smile or similar nouns are due to watt as measure of the power used by a lightbulb, and hence of its brilliance, by analogy to smiles and the like.

• megawattage
• megawatt-hour

From mega- +‎ watt.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɡavat]

megawatt m inan

1. megawatt

• “megawatt”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “megawatt”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

mega- +‎ watt

megawatt

1. megawatt

• “megawatt” in Den Danske Ordbog

From mega- +‎ watt.

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megawatt

1. megawatt

Unadapted borrowing from English megawatt. By surface analysis, mega- +‎ watt.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.ɡa.vat/, /ˌmɛ.ɡaˈvat/^[1][2]
• Rhymes: -ɛɡavat, -at

megawatt m (invariable)

1. megawatt

• megawatt in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

From mega- +‎ watt.

megawatt

1. megawatt

• “megawatt”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

From mega- +‎ watt.

megawatt m inan (relational adjective megawattový)

1. megawatt

• “megawatt”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

mega- +‎ watt

• IPA^(key): /meːɡavat/, /mɛɡavat/

megawatt

1. megawatt

• megawatt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)