MW

MW

1. (metrology) Symbol for megawatt, an SI unit of power equal to 10⁶ watts.
   • 2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10 (in English), page 8:

     Many of the proposed dams would be among the tallest in the world, able to generate more than 4,000MW, as much as the Hoover dam on the Colorado river in the US.

• MWh (megawatt hour)

MW

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Malawi.

   Synonym: MWI (alpha-3)

MW (countable and uncountable, plural MWs)

1. (electronics) Initialism of medium wave.
2. (electronics) Initialism of microwave.
3. (informal) Initialism of morning wood.

MW

1. (linguistics) Initialism of Merriam-Webster: an American publishing company known for its dictionaries
   • 2006 December 2, Brian M. Scott <b.scottcsuohio.edu>, "Re: CRIT: Untitled", message-ID <a86e8xtjh2mi.nv2vbi8kpxb0$.dlg@40tude.net>, rec.arts.sf.composition, Usenet :

     Merriam-Webster OnLine has a slightly more extensive definition than the AHD […]

     MW (1a) and (1b) cover about the same ground as AHD (1) and (2) but divide it up a little differently; […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:MW.
2. (Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of MediaWiki.

• (Merriam-Webster): M-W

• WM, Wm.