megawatt

noun

mega·​watt ˈme-gə-ˌwät How to pronounce megawatt (audio)
: one million watts

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During this latest cold snap, energy prices as a whole surged to $1,000 per megawatt hour. Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026 Google will deploy 1,400 megawatts of wind power, 200 megawatts of solar and 300 megawatts of battery storage to the grid under the agreement with Xcel. Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026 It is powered by a novel 83-megawatt (MW) compact light water reactor, CLWR-B1. Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 23 Feb. 2026 Blackstone led a $600 million equity investment in Indian AI cloud startup Neysa, while AMD expanded its partnership with TCS to deploy up to 200 megawatts of AI infrastructure capacity in the country. Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for megawatt

Word History

Etymology

mega- + watt

First Known Use

circa 1900, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of megawatt was circa 1900

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“Megawatt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/megawatt. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.

Medical Definition

megawatt

noun
mega·​watt ˈmeg-ə-ˌwät How to pronounce megawatt (audio)
: one million watts
abbreviation MW
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