gigawatt

== English == === Alternative forms === giga-watt jigawatt (alternative pronunciation spelling) === Etymology === From giga- +‎ watt. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡɪɡəˌwɒt/, /ˈd͡ʒɪɡəˌwɒt/ === Noun === gigawatt (plural gigawatts) 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.) Alternative form: GW (symbol) Holonyms: TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt < kW, kilowatt < MW, megawatt (metonymic) 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). [mid-2020s] a gigawatt of compute ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Czech == === Etymology === From giga- +‎ watt. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈɡɪɡavat] === Noun === gigawatt m inan gigawatt ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “gigawatt”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995 == Italian == === Etymology === From giga- +‎ watt. === Noun === gigawatt m (invariable) gigawatt