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  • abbreviation milliwatt

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  • noun metrology Symbol for the milliwatt, an SI unit of power equal to 10−3 watts.

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Examples

  • ZigBee routing devices typically pull an average of approximately 25 mA, or 75 mW, which is low for a node controlling a 100W light bulb.

    Engineering Hardware-Software 2010

  • ZigBee routing devices typically pull an average of approximately 25 mA, or 75 mW, which is low for a node controlling a 100W light bulb.

    Engineering Hardware-Software 2010

  • ZigBee routing devices typically pull an average of approximately 25 mA, or 75 mW, which is low for a node controlling a 100W light bulb.

    Engineering Hardware-Software 2010

  • Earlier this year, Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology announced a 60 GHz chip, which could be used for wireless HD video transfer, that requires less than 200 miliwatts (mW) to operate — making the chip energy efficient enough for use in a cell phone.

    Brave New Chip For a Brave New Wireless Future 2009

  • Class 3B/IIIb lasers (operating between 5-500 mW) and Class 4/IV lasers (operating above 500 mW) can not be legally promoted as laser pointers.

    Disturbing? 2010

  • It already achieves an optical output of 50 mW and emits light in true green with a wavelength of 515 nm.

    Projector - Fareastgizmos.com 2010

  • The design provides the industry's lowest power consumption of 100 mW per receive channel while delivering up to 6 dB higher dynamic range than competing AFE solutions.

    Samplify Delivers 32-Channel Ultrasound Analog Front-End in Small Outline Dual-in-line Module... 2010

  • In addition, alternative mechanistic and hence theoretically testable mW Evolution models for the bacterial motor not proposed until now.

    Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • This is why my thought leader colleague, the change agent Kevin Buck, and I are launching our metaWisdom initiative, metaWisdom Dialogues and mW website, a place for people to come together and collaborate wisely in co-creating a better world and better life.

    Lama Surya Das: Wisdom: An Endangered Natural Resource 2010

  • Visible laser pointers 400-700 nm operating at less than 1 mW power are Class 2 or II visible laser pointers operating with 1–5 mW power are Class 3A or IIIa.

    Disturbing? 2010

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