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单词 megawatt
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megawatt

[ meg-uh-wot ]
/ ˈmɛg əˌwɒt /

noun Electricity.

a unit of power, equal to one million watts. Abbreviation: MW

Origin of megawatt

First recorded in 1895–1900; mega- + watt

Words nearby megawatt

megaton, megatonnage, megatrend, megavitamin, megavolt, megawatt, Me generation, Meges, Megger, Meghalaya, Meghan
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British Dictionary definitions for megawatt

megawatt
/ (ˈmɛɡəˌwɒt) /

noun

one million wattsSymbol: MW
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cultural definitions for megawatt

megawatt

A unit of power: one million watts. A typical large electrical generating plant can produce a thousand megawatts of electricity.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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