Word.ws English Dictionary

micro-watt

micro-watt noun: one millionth ( 10⁻⁶ ) of a watt, abbreviated as µW.

Noun

micro-watt (plural micro-watts)

  1. One millionth ( 10⁻⁶ ) of a watt, abbreviated as µW.

Forms of micro-watt

pluralmicro-watts
alternative formmicrowatt

Origin of micro-watt

From micro- + watt.

Questions about micro-watt

What does micro-watt mean?
Micro-watt means one millionth ( 10⁻⁶ ) of a watt, abbreviated as µW.
What part of speech is micro-watt?
Micro-watt is a noun.
What is the plural of micro-watt?
The plural of micro-watt is micro-watts.

Words near micro-watt in the dictionary

  1. micro-viral
  2. micro-virality
  3. micro-volt
  4. micro-volts
  5. micro-watershed
  6. micro-watt
  7. micro-watts
  8. micro-weber
  9. microaberration
  10. microaberrations
  11. microabrade

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: micro-watt (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “micro-watt.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/micro-watt. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.