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jigawatt

jigawatt is the pronunciation spelling of gigawatt.

Meaning of gigawatt

Noun

gigawatt (plural gigawatts)

  1. 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
  2. (metonymically) The amount of data center capacity or amount of compute that this amount of power can provide under the current technological state of the art (PUE, clock speed, etc).
    • a gigawatt of compute

Forms of jigawatt

pluraljigawatts

Questions about jigawatt

What is jigawatt the pronunciation spelling of?
Jigawatt is the pronunciation spelling of gigawatt.

Words near jigawatt in the dictionary

  1. jigaboos
  2. jigajig
  3. jigamaree
  4. jigamarees
  5. Jigawa
  6. jigawatt
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  8. jigga jigga
  9. jigga-jigga
  10. jiggaboo
  11. jiggaboos

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