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Plural of megawatt

regular plural

The plural of megawatt is megawatts.

Forms of megawatt

Singularmegawatt
Pluralmegawatts
Countablecountable

Megawatts in a sentence

  • At full capacity, it could generate close to 6,000 megawatts of electricity, double Ethiopia's entire output before the dam was built.2025 September 8, “The promise and peril of Ethiopia's new mega-dam: It could power the region or plunge it into another conflict”, in The...

Meaning of megawatt

  1. noun One million (1 000 000) watts, an amount of power large enough to power such things as an entire commercial building or a small passenger aircraft. (Consuming 1 megawatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 megawatt-hour of energy.).
  2. adjective Exceptionally powerful, intense, or enormous in impact.

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Questions about the plural of megawatt

What is the plural of megawatt?
The plural of megawatt is megawatts.
Is megawatt countable?
Megawatt is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: megawatt (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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