megawattage

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noun

An amount of power expressed in megawatts.

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Meanings

nounmegawattage (usually uncountable, plural megawattages)

plural megawattages

  1. uncountableusuallyAn amount of power expressed in megawatts.

    The megawattage was higher than normal, but the politics sounded familiar when Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, with Democratic politicians and antinuclear activists in tow, dropped a rhetorical bomb on the Indian Point nuclear power plant on Monday.

    2007 December 9, Peter Applebome, “The Power Grid Game: Choose a Catastrophe”, in New York Times

Origin

From mega- + wattage.

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APA

megawattage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/megawattage

MLA

“megawattage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/megawattage. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “megawattage,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/megawattage.

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