terawatt
terawatt · terawatts
Terawatt
One million million watts, an amount of power large enough to power an entire region…One million million (10¹²) watts, an amount of power large enough to power an entire region with many cities. (Consuming 1 terawatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 terawatt-hour of energy.).
Meaning
1 sensesOne million million (10¹²) watts, an amount of power large enough to power an entire region with many cities. (Consuming 1 terawatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 terawatt-hour of energy.).
Holonyms: PW, petawatt
Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt < kW, kilowatt < MW, megawatt < GW, gigawatt
Terawatt
Translations
2 languagesDeutsch
By meaning 1
one million million ( 1012 ) watts, abbreviated as TW:
Origin
From tera- + watt.From tera- + watt.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source