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megawatt-year

megawatt-year noun: a unit of energy equal to that provided by one megawatt acting for one year (31·536 × 10¹² joules).

Noun

megawatt-year (plural megawatt-years)

  1. A unit of energy equal to that provided by one megawatt acting for one year (31·536 × 10¹² joules).
    • Holonyms: petajoule (1.000e15 J) < terawatt-hour (3.600e15 J) < gigawatt-year (31.536e15 J) < exajoule (1.000e18 J) < petawatt-hour (3.600e18 J) < terawatt-year (31.536e18 J)
    • Meronyms: yoctojoule (1.000e-24 J) < zeptojoule (1.000e-21 J) < attojoule (1.000e-18 J) < hartree (4.35974e-18 J) < femtojoule (1.000e-15 J) < picojoule (1.000e-12 J) < nanojoule (1.000e-9 J) < microjoule (1.000e-6 J) < millijoule (1.000e-3 J) < joule (1 J) < milliwatt-hour (3.6 J) < microwatt-year...

Forms of megawatt-year

pluralmegawatt-years

Origin of megawatt-year

By surface analysis, megawatt + year, or, by surface analysis, mega- + watt-year.

Questions about megawatt-year

What does megawatt-year mean?
Megawatt-year means a unit of energy equal to that provided by one megawatt acting for one year (31·536 × 10¹² joules).
What part of speech is megawatt-year?
Megawatt-year is a noun.
What is the plural of megawatt-year?
The plural of megawatt-year is megawatt-years.

Words near megawatt-year in the dictionary

  1. megawatt hours
  2. megawatt year
  3. megawatt years
  4. megawatt-hour
  5. megawatt-hours
  6. megawatt-year
  7. megawatt-years
  8. megawattage
  9. megawattages
  10. megawatts
  11. megawealth

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