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milliwatt-year

milliwatt-year noun: a unit of energy equal to that provided by one milliwatt acting for one year (31·536 × 10³ joules).

Noun

milliwatt-year (plural milliwatt-years)

  1. A unit of energy equal to that provided by one milliwatt acting for one year (31·536 × 10³ joules).
    • Holonyms: 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) < megawatt-year (31.536e12 J) < petajoule (1.000e15 J) < terawatt-hour...
    • Meronyms: kilojoule (1.000e3 J) < watt-hour (3.600e3 J)

Forms of milliwatt-year

pluralmilliwatt-years

Origin of milliwatt-year

By surface analysis, milliwatt + year, or, by surface analysis, milli- + watt-year.

Questions about milliwatt-year

What does milliwatt-year mean?
Milliwatt-year means a unit of energy equal to that provided by one milliwatt acting for one year (31·536 × 10³ joules).
What part of speech is milliwatt-year?
Milliwatt-year is a noun.
What is the plural of milliwatt-year?
The plural of milliwatt-year is milliwatt-years.

Words near milliwatt-year in the dictionary

  1. milliwatt hours
  2. milliwatt year
  3. milliwatt years
  4. milliwatt-hour
  5. milliwatt-hours
  6. milliwatt-year
  7. milliwatt-years
  8. milliwatts
  9. milliweber
  10. milliwebers
  11. milliwheaton

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