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PRONUNCIATION OF TERAWATT

terawatt  [ˈtɛrəˌwɒt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TERAWATT

noun
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verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Terawatt is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TERAWATT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Watt

The watt is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units, named after the Scottish engineer James Watt. The unit, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion or transfer.

Definition of terawatt in the English dictionary

The definition of terawatt in the dictionary is a unit of power equal to one million megawatts.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TERAWATT


abwatt
ˈæbˌwɒt
gigawatt
ˈdʒɪɡəˌwɒt
kilowatt
ˈkɪləʊˌwɒt
megawatt
ˈmɛɡəˌwɒt
microwatt
ˈmaɪkrəʊˌwɒt
milliwatt
ˈmɪlɪˌwɒt
mostwhat
ˈməʊstˌwɒt
multimegawatt
ˌmʌltɪˈmɛɡəˌwɒt
nanowatt
ˈnænəˌwɒt
Ofwat
ˈɒfˌwɒt
somewhat
ˈsʌmˌwɒt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TERAWATT

teraphim
teras
teratism
teratocarcinoma
teratogen
teratogenesis
teratogenic
teratogenicist
teratogenicity
teratogeny
teratoid
teratologic
teratological
teratologist
teratology
teratoma
teratomata
teratomatous
teratophobia
terbia

WORDS THAT END LIKE TERAWATT

albumblatt
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batt
blatt
Byatt
Cassatt
Evatt
forswatt
Hallstatt
matt
pratt
scatt
sceatt
semimatt
Watson-Watt
watt
Wyatt
Zermatt

Synonyms and antonyms of terawatt in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «terawatt» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TERAWATT

Find out the translation of terawatt to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of terawatt from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «terawatt» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

太瓦
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

teravatios
570 millions of speakers

English

terawatt
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

टेरावाट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تيراواط
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тераваттный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

terawatt
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

terawatt
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

térawatts
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Terawatt
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Terrawatt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

テラワット
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

테라 와트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Terawatt
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

terawatt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

terawatt
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टेरवॅट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

terawatlık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

terawatt
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Terawatt
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тераваттний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

terawatt
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

terawatt
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

megawatt
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

terawatt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

terawatt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of terawatt

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TERAWATT»

The term «terawatt» is regularly used and occupies the 86.718 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TERAWATT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about terawatt

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TERAWATT»

Discover the use of terawatt in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to terawatt and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Implementation of the University of Missouri Terawatt Test ...
The University of Missouri Terawatt Test Stand is one of the world's largest university operated pulsed power facilities.
Keith Robert Lechien, 2006
2
Environmental Science: Systems and Solutions
Terawatt (TW). Energy conversion of 1 billion (1,000,000,000) kilowatts. Terawatt- year (TW-yr). The energy converted or consumed during a year at the rate of 1 terawatt. A terawatt-year is approximately equivalent to the energy given off by ...
Michael L. McKinney, Robert M. Schoch, Logan Yonavjak, 2012
3
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Therefore, the electrical system would grow from the present use of some 85 terawatt hours per year to about twice as much. • Hydropower contributes 65 terawatt hours of electricity which is slightly above the present level. Further installations ...
4
Ofgem's retail market review: sixth report of session ...
Our generation business is about 29 terawatt hours; our supply business is about 48 terawatt hours, but our sales of electricity are 108 terawatt hours and our purchase of electricity is 122 terawatt hours. So we are not matching one off against ...
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Energy and Climate Change Committee, 2011
5
Applications of High-Field and Short Wavelength Sources
Recent advances in high-average-power, high-repetition-rate, ultrashort laser designs has allowed these systems to approach the 5W average power level at a fraction of a terawatt peak power1. Amplified spectral bandwidths of greater than  ...
Louis DiMauro, Margret Murnane, Anne L'Huillier, 1998
6
Wind Energy Comes of Age
This gives a mortality rate of 0.08 death per terawatt-hour from construction. Since the first wind turbines were installed in California and Denmark during the early 1980s, five men have died during ongoing maintenance activities.
Paul Gipe, 1995
7
Innovative Energy Strategies for CO2 Stabilization
... surrounded by fields of mirrors) 1 TW 1 terawatt 1 1012 watts 1 TWe 1 terawatt of electric power 1 TWe-y one terawatt-year of electric energy 3.156 1019 Joules of electric energy but often functionally equivalent at end use to 9.5 1019 Joules ...
Robert G. Watts, 2002
8
Terawatt Solar Photovoltaics: Roadblocks and Opportunities
This book is intended for readers with minimal technical background and aims to explore not only the fundamentals but also major issues in large-scale deployment of solar photovoltaics.
Meng Tao, 2014
9
Ebb and Flow: Tides and Life on Our Once and Future Planet
To give a sense of the scale, a 2001 study by Britain's Parliament places the U.K.' s total electricity consumption at 3 30 terawatt hours (each equal to one trillion kilowatt hours) per year and says that exploitation of the ten most promising U.K.  ...
Tom Koppel, 2007
10
Cannibal Capitalism: How Big Business and The Feds Are ...
Chernobyl and Three Mile Island incidents), nuclear power had the best safety record of all major energy sources, both in terms of total deaths and deaths per terawatt of energy produced each year. The results for the top four sources were:  ...
Michael C. Hill, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TERAWATT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term terawatt is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Terawatt Solar Farms By 2050?
“As a consequence, massive expansion of global solar-generating capacity to multi-terawatt scale is a very likely and essential component of a workable ... «OilPrice.com, May 15»
2
Opower and Utility Partners Save Over Eight Terawatt-hours of Energy
“Saving eight terawatt-hours is proof of the kind of results that scaled technology and personalized energy insight can deliver for utilities, customers and the ... «Business Wire, May 15»
3
MIT says solar power fields with trillions of watts of capacity are on …
The study found that even with today's crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) technologies, the industry could achieve terawatt-scale deployment of solar power by ... «Computerworld, May 15»
4
Japan could triple power from renewable energy sources by 2030 …
Clean energy — solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, biomass and ocean energy — could account for 241.4 terawatt-hours to 356.6-terawatt hours of output by 2030, ... «The Japan Times, Apr 15»
5
German Wind Turbines Produce Record Power in December, IWR …
Wind turbines produced 8.9 terawatt-hours in December, more than any previous month, the group said today by e-mail. IWR said it expects the record to be ... «Bloomberg, Jan 15»
6
Networked Gadgets Waste 400 Terawatt-Hours of Energy Every Year
The results are amazing: network-enabled devices in homes and offices around the world consumed 616 terawatt-hours in 2013, and 65 percent of that (400 ... «IEEE Spectrum, Jul 14»
7
10-terawatt laser fits on a desktop
The creation of the amplifier has allowed the team of scientists to create a laser producing 10-terawatts of power that is small enough to fit on a desktop. «SlashGear, Oct 13»
8
The art of amplification: A desktop-size 10 terawatt laser
A compact new generation optical amplifier has been constructed by physicists from the Laser Centre of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish ... «Phys.Org, Oct 13»
9
US Taps Into 1400 Terawatt Hours Of Clean Ocean Power
The Department of Energy estimates the total could come up to 1400 terawatt hours of electricity per year, enough to power millions of homes. The problem is ... «CleanTechnica, Aug 13»
10
Germany Sets Another Record: 5.1 Terawatt-Hours of Solar in July
Germany set a new record in July by providing 5.1 terawatt-hours of electricity from solar. That beat its record production of 5.0 terawatt-hours of electricity from ... «Greentech Media, Aug 13»

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