megawatt
[meg-uh-wot]
- a unit of power, equal to one million watts. Abbreviation: MW
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Arrayed over four acres, the 3,500 panels have a combined generation capacity of one megawatt.
A 110 megawatt plant in Nevada promises 10 hours of storage.
Megawatt 1980s and 1990s designer Adrienne Vittadini gave $250 to the RNC in 2001.
How could she not be, with such flawlessly smooth skin, perfectly placed bone structure, and a megawatt smile to boot?
megawatt
- one million wattsSymbol: MW
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megawatt
A unit of power: one million watts. A typical large electrical generating plant can produce a thousand megawatts of electricity.
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