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megawattage

megawattage noun: an amount of power expressed in megawatts.

Noun

megawattage (usually uncountable, plural megawattages)

  1. (usually) An amount of power expressed in megawatts.
    • The megawattage was higher than normal, but the politics sounded familiar when Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, with Democratic politicians and antinuclear activists in tow, dropped a rhetorical bomb on the Indian Point nuclear power plant on Monday.2007 December 9, Peter Applebome, “The Power Grid Game: Choose a Catastrophe”, in New York Times

Forms of megawattage

pluralmegawattages

Origin of megawattage

From mega- + wattage.

Questions about megawattage

What does megawattage mean?
Megawattage means an amount of power expressed in megawatts.
What part of speech is megawattage?
Megawattage is a noun.
What is the plural of megawattage?
The plural of megawattage is megawattages.

Words near megawattage in the dictionary

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

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