Megaton

Definitions: Megaton

Megaton

Noun

1. A measure of explosive power (of an atomic weapon) equal to that of one million tons of TNT.

2. One million tons.

Domain	Definitions
Physics	An explosive force equal to one million metric tons of TNT. The energy released in the explosion of one megaton of TNT is equal to 4.2 x 1022 ergs. (references)
Public Administration	A measure of the explosive power of nuclear arms, equivalent to one million tons of TNT. Source: European Union. (references)
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A megaton (abbreviation MT or Mt) is a unit of energy approximately equivalent to the energy released in the detonation of 1,000,000 tons of TNT. The unit has traditionally been used to rate the energy output, and hence destructive power, of nuclear weapons. More recently, it has been used to describe the energy released in other highly destructive events, such as asteroid impacts.

A kiloton is one-thousandth of a megaton.

The Little Boy weapon dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of approximately 13 kilotons. Thus, a megaton is equivalent to roughly 77 Hiroshima bombs.

The largest nuclear weapon ever detonated was the Tsar Bomba, which had a yield of 50 megatons.

From The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 3rd ed., compiled and edited by Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. Dolan, prepared and published by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D. C., 1977. (original at http://www.wws.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/byteserv.prl/~ota/disk3/1979/7906/790613.PDF )

Megaton Energy: Defined strictly as 10¹⁵ calories = 4.2 x 10¹⁵ joule = 4.2 PJ (petajoule). This is approximately the amount of energy that would be released by the explosion of 1,000 kt (1 million tons) of TNT.

Crosswords: Megaton

English words defined with "megaton": megaton bomb. (references)

Specialty definitions using "megaton": Megaton equivalent. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Megaton" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (megaton), Turkish (megaton).

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Usage

Screenplays

Now, call me foolish, call me irresponsible, but it occurs to me that a 500 megaton bomb planted at just the proper point would, uh (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

If a Soviet 1 megaton bomb was dropped on the harbor, those people, 5 miles away, would be vaporized in the first three-fifths of a second. (Special Bulletin; writing credit: Marshall Herskovitz; Edward Zwick)

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Domain	Title
Books	Megaton Man (reference) Megaton Man; Vol 1 (reference) Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets : The Search for the Million Megaton Menace That Threatens Life on Earth (reference) The 3 megaton gamble (reference) The megaton blasters : story of the 4925th test group (atomic) (reference) (more book examples)
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"Megaton" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Megaton" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	83.33%	10	111,207
Noun (proper)	16.67%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	12	N/A

Expressions using "megaton": megaton bomb ♦ Megaton equivalent ♦ megaton weapon. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "megaton": one-megaton.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "megaton"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		megaton. (various references)

Arabic		‏الميغاطن قوة انفجارية تعادل مليون طن من ثالث نتريت التولين. (various references)

Bulgarian		мегатон. (various references)

Czech		megatunový, megatuna. (various references)

Danish		megaton. (various references)

Dutch		megaton (million tons). (various references)

Finnish		megatonni (million tons). (various references)

French		mégatonne. (various references)

German		Megatonne. (various references)

Greek		ένα εκατομμύριο τόνουσ, μεγάτοννοσ, μεγάτοννος. (various references)

Hebrew		מיליון טון. (various references)

Hungarian		megatonna, egy millió tonna. (various references)

Italian		megatone. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		メール交換 (10^6, correspondence, exchange of letters, mace, mail, mail order, mailer, mailing, mailing list, main, main amp, main bank, main course, main culture, main event, main gate, main pole, main stand, main street, main table, main title, mainframe, main-memory, make, make-up, mate, mechanic, mechanical, mechanical automation, mechanics, mechanism, mechatronics, mega-, mega trend, megacycle, MT). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		メガトン (MT). (various references)

Pig Latin		egatonmay

Portuguese		megatonelada (million tons). (various references)

Russian		мегатонна. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		megatona. (various references)

Spanish		megatonelada, megatón. (various references)

Swedish		megaton (million tons). (various references)

Thai		หน่วยวัดพลังนิวเคลียร์. (various references)

Turkish		megaton, bir milyon ton. (various references)

Ukranian		мегатонна. (various references)

Vietnamese		triệu tấn sức nổ bằng một triệu tấn thuốc nổ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "megaton": megatonnage, megatonnages, megatons. (additional references)
	Words ending with "megaton": multimegaton. (additional references)
	Words containing "megaton": multimegatons. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Megaton" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Egothon, Helgason, Mcgrattan, Meadon, megaron, megatonne, Megatop, megatron, Megazone, Meggeson, Megstone, melaton, metaton, Migeon, Mugginton, omagamon. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: magneto, montage.
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-m-n-o-t"
	-1 letter: magnet, omenta.
	-2 letters: agent, agone, ament, among, atone, gemot, genoa, genom, gnome, magot, mange, mango, meant, menta, monte, oaten, omega, tango, togae, toman, tonga.
	-3 letters: aeon, agon, amen, ante, atom, etna, gaen, game, gane, gate, gent, geta, gnat, goat, gone, mage, mane, mano, mate, mean, meat, meno, meta, moan, moat, mote, name, neat.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-m-n-o-t"
	+1 letter: magneton, magnetos, megatons, montaged, montages.
	+2 letters: augmentor, gemmation, geomantic, magnetons, magnetron, morganite.
	+3 letters: augmentors, dermatogen, emigration, ergotamine, gastronome, gemination, gemmations, hatemonger, homogenate, magnetrons, mangosteen, moderating, morganites, nematology, outbeaming.
	+4 letters: amblygonite, centimorgan, congealment, dermatogens, earthmoving, emigrations, ergotamines, ferromagnet, gametogenic, gangsterdom, gastronomes, geminations, gentlewoman, geomagnetic, germination, gonadectomy, grandmother, hatemongers, homogenates, impregnator, ligamentous, mangosteens, megatonnage, meliorating, nonargument, nonmagnetic, ornamenting, outdreaming, overgarment, pomegranate, remigration, witenagemot.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 65 67 61 74 6F 6E

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Expression	Frequency per Day
megaton	20
bomb megaton nuclear	3
ketsu megaton	3
megaton man	2
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Megaton

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Megaton

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