Megawatt

Quick meaning: Megawatt is a noun meaning (figurative) Exceptionally powerful, intense, or enormous in impact.

Meaning

(figurative) Exceptionally powerful, intense, or enormous in impact.

More Meanings

1. 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.)

Example Sentences

Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt < kW, kilowatt

Holonyms: GW, gigawatt < TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt

I also love the way you always greet me with a megawatt smile.

It has been nearly 30 years since Warren's first major hit, Laura Branigan's “Solitaire,” and her mega-watt success has seldom dimmed.

Word Forms

• megawatts
• mega-watt

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include megawattage, megavolt, megawatt-hour, mega amp, millivolt, milli-joule.

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