Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One million watts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A unit of power or activity equal to 1,000,000 watts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One million ( 106 )
watts , abbreviated asMW .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a unit of power equal to one million watts
Etymologies
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Examples
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You can see the commercial potential here if you note that just one megawatt is enough power roughly 1,000 U.S. households.
Commercializing Solar Power with Molten Salt | Inhabitat 2008
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A megawatt is a snapshot figure, roughly equal to the amount of electricity used by 750 typical homes at any given moment.
SFGate: Top News Stories Chronicle dbaker@sfchronicle.com (David R. Baker 2011
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A megawatt is a snapshot figure, roughly equal to the amount of electricity needed to power 750 typical homes at any given moment.
SFGate: Top News Stories Chronicle dbaker@sfchronicle.com (David R. Baker 2011
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We've got the 1.6 megawatt, which is the highest performing unit.
unknown title 2011
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Total shipments in the third quarter of 2011 were 445 megawatt, which is at the low end of our guidance of 450 megawatt.
unknown title 2011
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A megawatt is a snapshot figure, roughly equal to the amount of electricity used by 750 typical homes at any given moment.
SFGate: Top News Stories Chronicle dbaker@sfchronicle.com (David R. Baker 2011
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A megawatt is a snapshot figure, roughly equal to the amount of electricity used by 750 houses at any given moment.
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A megawatt is a snapshot figure, equal to the amount of electricity used by 750 typical homes at any given instant.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science coby none@example.com 2010
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A megawatt is a snapshot figure, roughly equal to the amount of electricity used by 750 typical homes at any given instant.
SFGate: Top News Stories David R. Baker 2010
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A megawatt is a snapshot figure, roughly equal to the amount of electricity used by 750 houses at any given moment.
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