Terawatt
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 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.).
"Holonyms: PW, petawatt"
Example
More examples"Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt < kW, kilowatt < MW, megawatt < GW, gigawatt"
Etymology
From tera- + watt.