megawatt

noun

mega·​watt ˈme-gə-ˌwät 

: one million watts

Examples of megawatt in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But Radiant has designs for its 1-megawatt Kaleidos system extending far beyond the Lower 48 and its first projects on Fort Benning in Georgia and Buckley Space Force Base in Colorado, said chief operating officer and president Tori Shivanandan. — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026

Each vessel is engineered to deploy up to 600 megawatts of electricity. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026

QuantumScape announced plans for a 100 megawatt-hour solid-state battery production line for artificial intelligence data centers. — Darla Mercado, Cfp®,fred Imbert, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026

The current plan replaces an earlier 2-megawatt biomass-to-energy project, approved in 2013, that would have used biomass to generate electricity. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Word History

Etymology

mega- + watt

First Known Use

circa 1900, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for megawatt

• aeronaut
• aforethought
• afterthought
• apricot
• argonaut
• astronaut
• camelot
• coffeepot
• concordat
• cosmonaut
• entrepot
• flowerpot

Medical Definition

megawatt

noun

mega·​watt ˈmeg-ə-ˌwät 

: one million watts

—abbreviation MW