MILLIWATT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does milliwatt mean? 

• MILLIWATT (noun)
  The noun MILLIWATT has 1 sense:

1. a unit of power equal to one thousandth of a watt

  Familiarity information: MILLIWATT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILLIWATT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of power equal to one thousandth of a watt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("milliwatt" is a kind of...):

power unit (a measure of electric power)

Meronyms (parts of "milliwatt"):

abwatt (a power unit equal to the power dissipated when 1 abampere flows across a potential difference of 1 abvolt (one ten-thousandth of a milliwatt))

Holonyms ("milliwatt" is a part of...):

W; watt (a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm)

 Context examples 

This region required a heat flow of at least 150-180 milliwatts per square meter to agree with the observations.

(Hot News from the Antarctic Underground, NASA)

Hélène Seroussi and Erik Ivins of JPL found that the flux of energy from the mantle plume must be no more than 150 milliwatts per square meter.

(Hot News from the Antarctic Underground, NASA)

Seroussi and Ivins' simulations using a heat flow higher than 150 milliwatts per square meter showed too much melting to be compatible with the space-based data, except in one location: an area inland of the Ross Sea known for intense flows of water.

(Hot News from the Antarctic Underground, NASA)