English Explanatory Dictionary

negawatt

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A unit of saved energy.

Pronunciation

/ˈnɛɡ.ə.wɒt/ /ˈnɛɡ.ə.wɑt/ en-us-negawatt.ogg

Word forms

negawatt negawatts

Etymology

Coined by Amory Lovins, chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute as a contraction of negative watt on the model of similar compounds like megawatt, by surface analysis, nega- + watt. Lovins credited the term to a typo in a document by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission in which the word "megawatt" was misspelled.

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