gigawatt

• giga-watt
• jigawatt (alternative pronunciation spelling)

From giga- +‎ watt.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪɡəˌwɒt/, /ˈd͡ʒɪɡəˌwɒt/

gigawatt (plural gigawatts)

2. One thousand million (10⁹) watts, an amount of power large enough to power such things as a midsize town or several small ones. (Consuming 1 gigawatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 gigawatt-hour of energy.)

   Alternative form: GW (symbol)

   Holonyms: TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt

   Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt < kW, kilowatt < MW, megawatt

   In the 2020s, the race for AI data centers has Big Tech searching for ways to add multiple gigawatts of additional grid capacity to a regional power grid.

   In a famous movie about time travel, the mad scientist tells the teenage hero that the time machine requires 1.21 gigawatts of power to operate.

From giga- +‎ watt.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɪɡavat]

gigawatt m inan

1. gigawatt

• “gigawatt”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

From giga- +‎ watt.

gigawatt m (invariable)

1. gigawatt