kilotonne

/K IH1 L AH0 T AH0 N/
noun
  1. 1

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

    “That's a 300-kiloton nuclear warhead.”

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