terawatt
Meanings
noun
- 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.).
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Etymology
From tera- + watt.
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