gigaton
English
noun
Definitions
- A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many billion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.
- One billion tons.
Etymology
Prefix from English ton (large amount).
Origin
English
ton
Gloss
large amount
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Charleston English
- asston English
- crapton English
- exaton English
- fuckton English
- kiloton English
- megaton English
- multiton English
- petaton English
- shitton English
- teraton English
- ton English
- tonish English
- tonload English
- tonner English
- yottaton English
- zettaton English
- tonn Norwegian Bokmål
- ton Swedish
- 噸 Japanese
- 屯 Japanese
- tonn Norwegian Nynorsk
- ton Danish
- tonne Old French
- टन Hindi
- 噸 Chinese
- tani Swahili
- 톤 Korean
- ton Hausa