Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kardashev scale

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English

Syllables: kar-da-shev s-cale
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A scale that measures the technological level of a civilization by the extent of its energy consumption.

Example Sentences

"Let us think of an ethical scale for civilizations in the same spirit as the Kardashev scale. I'll modestly call it the Hall scale."
"Earth's civilization during the late twentieth century when the Kardashev scale was first proposed, utilizing roughly 15 terawatts globally, would have been defined as approximately K0.71."

Etymology

Named after Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev (1932–2019).

Inflected Forms

the Kardashev scale (canonical)

Questions

What does kardashev scale mean?: A scale that measures the technological level of a civilization by the extent of its energy consumption.
Where does kardashev scale come from?: Named after Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev (1932–2019).

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