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microwatt-year

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

Noun

microwatt-year (plural microwatt-years)

  1. A unit of energy equal to that provided by one microwatt of power acting for one year (31·536 joules).
    • Holonyms: kilojoule (1.000e3 J) < watt-hour (3.600e3 J) < milliwatt-year (31.536e3 J) < megajoule (1.000e6 J) < kilowatt-hour (3.600e6 J) < watt-year (31.536e6 J) < gigajoule (1.000e9 J) < megawatt-hour (3.600e9 J) < kilowatt-year (31.536e9 J) < terajoule (1.000e12 J) < gigawatt-hour (3.600e12 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) < microwatt-hour (3.600e-3 J) < joule (1 J) <...

Forms of microwatt-year

pluralmicrowatt-years

Origin of microwatt-year

By surface analysis, microwatt + year, or, by surface analysis, micro- + watt-year.

Questions about microwatt-year

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

Words near microwatt-year in the dictionary

  1. microwatt hours
  2. microwatt year
  3. microwatt years
  4. microwatt-hour
  5. microwatt-hours
  6. microwatt-year
  7. microwatt-years
  8. microwatts
  9. microwavable
  10. microwave
  11. microwave meal

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