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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.).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Czech:
terawatt
— one million million ( 1012 ) watts, abbreviated as TW
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Dutch:
terawatt
— one million million ( 1012 ) watts, abbreviated as TW
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Finnish:
terawatti
— one million million ( 1012 ) watts, abbreviated as TW
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French:
térawatt
— one million million ( 1012 ) watts, abbreviated as TW
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German:
Terawatt
— one million million ( 1012 ) watts, abbreviated as TW
