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noun 
  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.
Translations: 
  • French: kilotonne
Etymology: metric prefix kilo- + ton

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