terawatt

noun

1. One million million (10¹²) watts, an amount of power large enough to power an entire region with many cities. (Consuming 1 terawatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 terawatt-hour of energy.).

   “Holonyms: PW, petawatt”

   “Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt < kW, kilowatt < MW, megawatt < GW, gigawatt”

   “As of 2025, it was estimated that all of the power stations on Earth were collectively generating about 15 terawatts at any given instant.”