megawatt
megawatt noun: 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.).
Noun
megawatt (plural megawatts)
- 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
- Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt < kW, kilowatt
Adjective
megawatt (comparative more megawatt, superlative most megawatt)
- Exceptionally powerful, intense, or enormous in impact.
- I also love the way you always greet me with a megawatt smile.2008, David Foster, Hitman, Forty Years Making Music, Topping the Charts, and Winning Grammys
- It has been nearly 30 years since Warren's first major hit, Laura Branigan's “Solitaire,” and her mega-watt success has seldom dimmed.2011, Melinda Newman, “A Hitmaker Reaches New Heights”, in Billboard, volume 123, number 35, page 29
megawatt meaning in Tamil and Thai
megawatt in Tamil
- மெகாவுவாற்று
megawatt in Thai
- one million watts
- เมกะวัตต์
Examples of megawatt in a sentence
- 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.2004, Jesse Walker, Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America, page 197:
- At full capacity, it could generate close to 6,000 megawatts of electricity, double Ethiopia's entire output before the dam was built.2025 September 8, “The promise and peril of Ethiopia's new mega-dam: It could power the region or plunge it into another conflict”, in The...
- Thanks to Parker's megawatt success in the NBA, kids in France began to dream of being like him and pursuing their own hoops dreams, which started to change the tenor of the game back home.2023, Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, Basketball Empire, France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA, page 212:
- As the opening riffs of megawatt single ‘Nice To Each Other’ kick in, the curtains open, revealing [Olivia] Dean in a sequinned pink gown, flanked by a slick band.2026 April 23, Hannah Mylrea, “Olivia Dean live in Glasgow: a new popstar’s victory lap”, in NME:
Forms of megawatt
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | megawatts |
| alternative form | mega-watt |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more megawatt |
| superlative | most megawatt |
Origin of megawatt
From mega- + watt.
Words formed from megawatt
Phrases with megawatt
Questions about megawatt
- What does megawatt mean?
- Megawatt means 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.).
- What is megawatt in Tamil?
- Megawatt in Tamil is மெகாவுவாற்று. See Megawatt meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use megawatt in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is megawatt?
- Megawatt can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of megawatt?
- The plural of megawatt is megawatts.
Words near megawatt in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: megawatt (page history and authors); megawatt (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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