megawattage

English

Etymology

mega- +‎ wattage

Noun

megawattage (usually uncountable, plural megawattages)

  1. An amount of power expressed in megawatts.
    • 2007 December 9, Peter Applebome, “The Power Grid Game: Choose a Catastrophe”, in New York Times‎:
      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.
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