gigawatt

See also: giga-watt

English

Alternative forms

• giga-watt
• jigawatt (pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

From giga- +‎ watt.

Noun

gigawatt (plural gigawatts)

1. One thousand million (10⁹) watts, abbreviated as GW.

Translations

10⁹ watts

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吉瓦 (jíwǎ)

• Czech: gigawatt m
• Finnish: gigawatti (fi)
• French: gigawatt (fr) m
• Georgian: გიგავატი (gigavaṭi)
• German: Gigawatt (de) n
• Icelandic: gígavatt n
• Italian: gigawatt (it) m
• Japanese: ギガワット (gigawatto)
• Russian: гигава́тт (ru) m (gigavátt)
• Spanish: gigavatio (es) m
• Thai: กิกะวัตต์, จิกะวัตต์

Czech

Etymology

From giga- +‎ watt.

Noun

gigawatt m inan

1. gigawatt

Declension

Declension of gigawatt (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	gigawatt	gigawatty
genitive	gigawattu	gigawattů
dative	gigawattu	gigawattům
accusative	gigawatt	gigawatty
vocative	gigawatte	gigawatty
locative	gigawattu	gigawattech
instrumental	gigawattem	gigawatty

Further reading

• gigawatt in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Italian

Etymology

From giga- +‎ watt.

Noun

gigawatt m (invariable)

1. gigawatt