"teraton" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: teratons [plural]
Etymology: From tera- + ton. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|tera-|ton|text=+|tree=1}} From tera- + ton. Head templates: {{en-noun}} teraton (plural teratons)
  1. A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many trillion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy. Wikidata QID: Q5263280
    Sense id: en-teraton-en-noun-en:Q5263280 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English entries referencing missing etymons, English entries with etymology texts, English entries with etymon, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with tera-, Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Pages with etymon, Units of energy Disambiguation of English entries referencing missing etymons: 74 26 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology texts: 72 28 Disambiguation of English entries with etymon: 73 27 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 79 21 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with tera-: 61 39 Disambiguation of Pages using etymon with no ID: 75 25 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 79 21 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 79 21 Disambiguation of Pages with etymon: 75 25 Disambiguation of Units of energy: 86 14
  2. A measure of the weight of an object based on how many trillions of tons it weighs.
    Sense id: en-teraton-en-noun-U1GUnCuq
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: doomsday bomb

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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