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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesmegatonelada
Pronunciation / Transliteration: me-ga-to-ne-la-da
"A bomba nuclear liberou várias megatoneladas de energia."
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A unit of explosive power equal to one million tons of trinitrotoluene (TNT), used primarily to measure the yield of nuclear weapons.
"The hydrogen bomb tested in the mid-20th century had a yield of several megatons." - 2
Informally used to describe something of massive scale, impact, or quantity.
"The blockbuster movie turned out to be a box-office megaton."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Coined in the mid-20th century, the term is a blend of the Greek-derived prefix mega- (meaning great or one million) and ton (a unit of weight). It originally emerged in the nuclear age to quantify the explosive power of nuclear weapons equivalent to one million tons of TNT.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Megaton" is said worldwide
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mégatonne
Transliteration: mey-ga-ton
"La puissance de l'arme a été mesurée en mégatonnes."
Megatonne
Transliteration: me-ga-to-nuh
"Die Sprengkraft wurde auf mehrere Megatonnen geschätzt."
megatonnata
Transliteration: me-ga-ton-na-ta
"La testata nucleare aveva una potenza di una megatonnata."
megatón
Transliteration: me-ga-ton
"El dispositivo liberó una energía equivalente a un megatón."
megatonelada
Transliteration: me-ga-to-ne-la-da
"A bomba nuclear liberou várias megatoneladas de energia."
मेगाटन
Transliteration: megatan
"परमाणु हथियार की क्षमता कई मेगाटन थी।"
百万吨
Transliteration: bǎi wàn dūn
"这枚核弹的当量相当于数百万吨TNT。"
메가톤
Transliteration: megaton
"그 수소폭탄의 위력은 수 메가톤에 달했다."
メガトン
Transliteration: megaton
"その核弾頭の威力は数メガトンと推定されている。"
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