megawatt

noun/ˈmɛɡəwɑt/

Frequency rank: #17,457 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

A unit of electrical power equal to one million watts, used to measure large-scale energy output.

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Example sentence

The new solar farm can generate one megawatt of power for every hectare of panels.

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