megawatt

See also: mégawatt and mega-watt

English

Alternative forms

• mega-watt

Etymology

From mega- +‎ watt.

Noun

megawatt (plural megawatts)

1. One million (1 000 000) watts, abbreviated as MW.
   • 2004, Jesse Walker, Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America, page 197:

     Not long after the feds started regulating radio, Mexico's megawatt border blasters—high-powered stations planted just south of Texas and California—started beckoning. The FCC couldn't control them […]

   • 2007 July 25, Felicity Barringer, “California Utility Agrees to Buy Power Generated by Solar Array”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 — Pacific Gas & Electric, Northern California’s major utility, is announcing a commitment on Wednesday to purchase 550 megawatts of solar power to be generated by troughlike arrays of mirrors spread over nine square miles in the Mojave Desert.

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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兆瓦 (zh) (zhàowǎ)

• Czech: megawatt m
• Danish: megawatt c
• Dutch: megawatt (nl)
• Finnish: megawatti (fi)
• 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
• Swahili: megawati
• Swedish: megawatt (sv) c
• Thai: เมกะวัตต์
• Turkish: megavat (tr)
• Ukrainian: мегава́т m (mehavát)

Czech

Etymology

From mega- +‎ watt.

Noun

megawatt m inan

1. megawatt

Declension

Declension of megawatt (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	megawatt	megawatty
genitive	megawattu	megawattů
dative	megawattu	megawattům
accusative	megawatt	megawatty
vocative	megawatte	megawatty
locative	megawattu	megawattech
instrumental	megawattem	megawatty

Further reading

• “megawatt”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “megawatt”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

mega- +‎ watt

Noun

megawatt

1. megawatt

Further reading

• “megawatt” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From mega- +‎ watt.

Pronunciation

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Noun

megawatt

1. megawatt

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English megawatt. By surface analysis, mega- +‎ watt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.ɡa.vat/, /ˌmɛ.ɡaˈvat/
• Rhymes: -ɛɡavat, -at

Noun

megawatt m (invariable)

1. megawatt

Further reading

• megawatt in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Romanian

Etymology

From mega- +‎ watt.

Noun

megawatt

1. megawatt

Further reading

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

Slovak

Etymology

From mega- +‎ watt.

Noun

megawatt m inan (related adjective megawattový)

1. megawatt

Declension

Declension of megawatt (pattern dub)

	singular	plural
nominative	megawatt	megawatty
genitive	megawattu	megawattov
dative	megawattu	megawattom
accusative	megawatt	megawatty
locative	megawatte	megawattoch
instrumental	megawattom	megawattmi

Further reading

• “megawatt”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Swedish

Etymology

mega- +‎ watt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meːɡavat/, /mɛɡavat/

Noun

megawatt

1. megawatt

Further reading

• megawatt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)