megawatt

See also: mégawatt and mega-watt

English

Alternative forms

• mega-watt

Etymology

mega- +‎ watt

Noun

megawatt (plural megawatts)

1. One million (1 000 000) watts, abbreviated as MW.

Usage notes

• Attributive use modifying smile or similar nouns are due to watt as measure of the power used by a lightbulb, and hence of its brilliance, by analogy to smiles and the like.

Derived terms

• megawattage
• megawatt-hour

Translations

one million watts

• Czech: megawatt m
• Danish: megawatt c
• Dutch: megawatt (nl)
• French: mégawatt (fr) m
• German: Megawatt (de) n
• Icelandic: megavatt n
• Italian: megawatt (it) m
• Latvian: megavats

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: megawatt m

  Nynorsk: megawatt m

• Romanian: megawatt (ro)
• Russian: мегаватт (ru) m (megavatt)
• Slovak: megawatt (sk) m
• Slovene: megavat
• Swedish: megawatt (sv) c
• Turkish: megavat (tr)

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Czech

Etymology

mega- +‎ watt

Noun

megawatt m

1. megawatt

Further reading

• megawatt in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• megawatt in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

Etymology

mega- +‎ watt

Noun

megawatt

1. megawatt

Further reading

• “megawatt” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

mega- +‎ watt

Pronunciation

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Noun

megawatt

1. megawatt

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English megawatt, equivalent to mega- +‎ watt.

Noun

megawatt m (invariable)

1. megawatt

Further reading

• megawatt in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti

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Romanian

Etymology

mega- +‎ watt

Noun

megawatt

1. megawatt

Further reading

• megawatt in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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Slovak

Etymology

mega- +‎ watt

Noun

megawatt m

1. megawatt

Further reading

• megawatt in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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Swedish

Etymology

mega- +‎ watt

Noun

megawatt

1. megawatt

Further reading

• megawatt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)