terawatt

See also: térawatt and tera-watt

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From tera- +‎ watt.

Noun

terawatt (plural terawatts)

  2. 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.).
    Alternative form: TW (symbol)
    Holonyms: PW, petawatt
    Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt < kW, kilowatt < MW, megawatt < GW, gigawatt
    As of 2025, it was estimated that all of the power stations on Earth were collectively generating about 15 terawatts at any given instant.

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Czech

Etymology

From tera- +‎ watt.

Noun

terawatt m inan

  1. terawatt

Declension

Declension of terawatt (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative terawatt terawatty
genitive terawattu terawattů
dative terawattu terawattům
accusative terawatt terawatty
vocative terawatte terawatty
locative terawattu terawattech
instrumental terawattem terawatty
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