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petawatt

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
petawatt
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An SI unit of power equal to 10¹⁵ watts. Symbol: PW. An amount of power much larger than all the power generated by all power stations on Earth. (Consuming 1 petawatt during a duration of 1 hour would consume 1 petawatt-hour of energy.)

Example Sentences

  • "Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt < kW, kilowatt < MW, megawatt < GW, gigawatt < TW, terawatt"

Etymology

From peta- + watt.

Inflected Forms

petawatts (plural)

Phrases

petawatt-hour

Frequently Paired Words

mul:PW

Questions

What does petawatt mean?
An SI unit of power equal to 10¹⁵ watts. Symbol: PW. An amount of power much larger than all the power generated by all power stations on Earth. (Consuming 1 petawatt during a duration of 1 hour would consume 1 petawatt-hour of energy.)
Where does petawatt come from?
From peta- + watt.

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