megaton

A unit of explosive power equivalent to one million tons of TNT, commonly used to measure the yield of nuclear weapons; also refers to a weight of one million tons.

• 🇩🇪Eine Einheit der Sprengkraft, die einer Million Tonnen TNT entspricht und üblicherweise zur Messung der Stärke von Kernwaffen verwendet wird; bezeichnet auch ein Gewicht von einer Million Tonnen.

1. Explosive power unit C1 formal technical

   A unit used to measure the energy released by an atomic bomb, equal to one million tons of TNT.

   • The bomb had a yield of 50 megatons.
   • The treaty limited testing to under 1 megaton.
   • The explosion was equivalent to 20 megatons of TNT.

   🇩🇪Megatonne

2. Unit of weight C1 formal scientific

   A unit of mass equal to one million tons.

   • The cargo ship can carry over 1 megaton of ore.
   • The glacier lost several megatons of ice last year.
   • The asteroid is estimated to weigh 100 megatons.

   🇩🇪Gewichtseinheit

• megatons plural form
• megatons' possessive plural form
• megaton's possessive singular form