microwatt

[ mahy-kroh-wot ]

nounElectricity.

a unit of power equal to one millionth of a watt. Symbol: μW, μw

Origin of microwatt

¹

First recorded in 1910–15; micro- + watt

Words Nearby microwatt

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How to use microwatt in a sentence

If she was broadcastin', with a hell of a lot more'n a micro-microwatt—it'd be bad!
The Machine That Saved The World | William Fitzgerald Jenkins

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