Etymograph

English

teraton

From tera- + ton.

A compound of tera- + ton

Ancient Greek τέρας ‘monster’

English tera-

English tun ‘cask’

English ton

Today it means

noun A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many trillion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “teraton”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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