gigawatts

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A form of gigawatt — 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.)

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of gigawatt
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