Explore Kiloton through 8 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Kiloton meaning
- 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. (A derived unit for TNT equivalent.)
- One thousand tons.
- One thousand short tons (10³ × 2000 lb).
Synonyms of Kiloton
Using Kiloton
- The main meaning on this page is: 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. (A derived unit for TNT equivalent.) | One thousand tons. | One thousand short tons (10³ × 2000 lb).
- Useful related words include: avoirdupois unit, explosive unit.
Context around Kiloton
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Kiloton
- In this selection, "kiloton" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nuclear, making and yield stand out and add context to how "kiloton" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 7 10 kiloton yield and a 10 kiloton weapon has. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "kiloton" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with kiloton
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A 40-kiloton nuclear weapon was tested in an exercise involving 45,000 soldiers. (14 words)
This implies that each kiloton of yield is equivalent to some negative number of cow farts. (16 words)
Its armament was either a convert conventional warhead or a W40 nuclear warhead (7–10 kiloton yield). (17 words)
American, French and British nuclear submarines are believed to carry at least some missiles with dial-a-yield warheads for this purpose, potentially allowing a strike as low as one kiloton (or less) against a single target. (37 words)
This means that although a 10 kiloton weapon has only 0.7% of the energy release of the 1.44- megaton Starfish Prime test, the EMP will be at least 8% as powerful. (33 words)
By comparison, the two nuclear weapons used by the United States against Japan during the Second World War were 15 and 20 kiloton, making the Trident II orders of magnitude more powerful. (32 words)
Example sentences (8)
By comparison, the two nuclear weapons used by the United States against Japan during the Second World War were 15 and 20 kiloton, making the Trident II orders of magnitude more powerful.
This implies that each kiloton of yield is equivalent to some negative number of cow farts.
Among new details publicly disclosed in Netanyahu's 20-minute presentation were old Iranian plans to initially field five 10-kiloton nuclear weapons.
A 40-kiloton nuclear weapon was tested in an exercise involving 45,000 soldiers.
American, French and British nuclear submarines are believed to carry at least some missiles with dial-a-yield warheads for this purpose, potentially allowing a strike as low as one kiloton (or less) against a single target.
Generally it seems difficult to build nuclear devices smaller than about 1 kiloton in yield, which would make it a difficult engineering problem to extract power from the resulting explosions.
Its armament was either a convert conventional warhead or a W40 nuclear warhead (7–10 kiloton yield).
This means that although a 10 kiloton weapon has only 0.7% of the energy release of the 1.44- megaton Starfish Prime test, the EMP will be at least 8% as powerful.