megawattage en · NOUN
Etymology
From mega- + wattage.
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) An 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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| megawattages | Number=Plur | lexicographic |