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The productive capacity of strikes, naval craft (such as Aircraft Carrier s and Submarine s), engineering hardware, and some scientific research equipment (such as the Supercollider and large Laser s).

Modern high-powered Diesel-electric railroad Locomotive s typically have a peak power output of 3–5 MW, whereas a typical modern Nuclear Power Plant produces on the order of 500–2,000 MWe peak output.

According to the '' Oxford English Dictionary '', the earliest citing for "megawatt" is a reference in the 1900 '' Webster's International Dictionary of English Language''. The OED also says "megawatt" appeared in a 28 November 1947 article in '' Science '' (506:2).


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