Examples of milliwatt in a Sentence
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Lasers sold for pointing purposes legally can’t exceed 5 milliwatts.
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Catherine Allen, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2024
That will mean a significant jump in laser power compared to the 250 milliwatts or so needed for Quera's current hardware.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
Apple silicon can reduce idle power draw to as little as 200 milliwatts.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Nov. 2023
So little power, in fact, just to be on an event camera consumes one milliwatt, on average, because in fact, the power consumption depends on the dynamics of the scene.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Oct. 2023
Whereas other techniques demand an operating power of roughly 1.5 to 4 watts, the new method requires only an average power of 400 milliwatts to operate 2,000 foci.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2023
Power efficiency in terms of frames per second per milliwatt.
—Anshel Sag, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
One of these ingestibles can power a 5 milliWatt device (or, 0.005 of a watt) for up to 18 hours using 600 milligrams of active melanin material.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2016
Dr Neasham’s nanomodems consume only ten milliwatts when listening, and 1W when broadcasting.
—The Economist, 10 May 2018
Catherine Allen, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2024
That will mean a significant jump in laser power compared to the 250 milliwatts or so needed for Quera's current hardware.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
Apple silicon can reduce idle power draw to as little as 200 milliwatts.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Nov. 2023
So little power, in fact, just to be on an event camera consumes one milliwatt, on average, because in fact, the power consumption depends on the dynamics of the scene.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Oct. 2023
Whereas other techniques demand an operating power of roughly 1.5 to 4 watts, the new method requires only an average power of 400 milliwatts to operate 2,000 foci.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2023
Power efficiency in terms of frames per second per milliwatt.
—Anshel Sag, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
One of these ingestibles can power a 5 milliWatt device (or, 0.005 of a watt) for up to 18 hours using 600 milligrams of active melanin material.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2016
Dr Neasham’s nanomodems consume only ten milliwatts when listening, and 1W when broadcasting.
—The Economist, 10 May 2018
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milliwatt
noun
mil·li·watt
ˈmil-ə-ˌwät 
: one thousandth of a watt
—abbreviation mW
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