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megawatt

American

[meg-uh-wot] / ˈmɛg əˌwɒt /

noun

Electricity.

a unit of power, equal to one million watts. MW

megawatt British

/ ˈmɛɡəˌwɒt /

noun

MW. one million watts

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megawatt Cultural

A unit of power: one million watts. A typical large electrical generating plant can produce a thousand megawatts of electricity.

Etymology

Origin of megawatt

First recorded in 1895–1900; mega- + watt

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megawatt

ESS Tech is working with Alsym, another US firm that is planning to ship "hundreds" of megawatt hours' worth of sodium ion batteries – made in the US – by 2027.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Prices of Dutch TTF gas futures, a benchmark for the region, topped €71 per megawatt hour this week, the equivalent of roughly $82, more than doubling this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Parton, never dropping her megawatt smile, replied, “If you had’ve, it would have been something very natural. But I would have probably kicked your shins or something.”

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

The new CS-4 aims to help speed up these workflows by increasing the amount of tokens generated per megawatt tenfold relative to its CS-3 predecessor.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

And then that megawatt smile that belonged on cereal boxes across the nation reappeared.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

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