petaton
English
noun
Definitions
- A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many quadrillion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.
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
- gigaton English
- kiloton English
- megaton English
- multiton 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