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gigawatt-year

gigawatt-year noun: a unit of energy equal to that provided by one gigawatt of power acting for one year (31·536 × 10¹⁵ joules).

Noun

gigawatt-year (plural gigawatt-years)

  1. A unit of energy equal to that provided by one gigawatt of power acting for one year (31·536 × 10¹⁵ joules).
    • Holonyms: exajoule (1.000e18 J) < petawatt-hour (3.600e18 J) < terawatt-year (31.536e18 J)
    • Meronyms: kilojoule (1.000e3 J) < watt-hour (3.600e3 J) < milliwatt-year (31.536e3 J) < megajoule (1.000e6 J) < kilowatt-hour (3.600e6 J) < watt-year (31.536e6 J) < gigajoule (1.000e9 J) < megawatt-hour (3.600e9 J) < kilowatt-year (31.536e9 J) < terajoule (1.000e12 J) < gigawatt-hour (3.600e12 J) <...

Forms of gigawatt-year

pluralgigawatt-years

Questions about gigawatt-year

What does gigawatt-year mean?
Gigawatt-year means a unit of energy equal to that provided by one gigawatt of power acting for one year (31·536 × 10¹⁵ joules).
What part of speech is gigawatt-year?
Gigawatt-year is a noun.
What is the plural of gigawatt-year?
The plural of gigawatt-year is gigawatt-years.

Words near gigawatt-year in the dictionary

  1. gigawatt hours
  2. gigawatt year
  3. gigawatt years
  4. gigawatt-hour
  5. gigawatt-hours
  6. gigawatt-year
  7. gigawatt-years
  8. gigawatts
  9. gigaword
  10. gigawords
  11. gigaxonin

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