📚 noun • entry_id 41014
gigawatt
/ˈɡɪɡəˌwɒt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
gigavatio
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.)
Holonyms: TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt
Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt < kW, kilowatt < MW, megawatt
Phrases