quintillion
See also: Quintillion
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwɪnˈtɪljən/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪljən
Numeral
quintillion (plural quintillions)
- (US, modern British & Australian, short scale) A billion billion: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 1018.
- Synonym: (long scale) trillion
- 2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 1, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32:
- “I’m not sure I understand why we have to send a quadrillion-credit mission to another galaxy.”
He looked fleetingly amused. “Quintillion... and we don’t have a choice, Harper. Any of us, really, but humanity especially.”
- 2023 December 18, Charlie Warzel, “Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore”, in The Atlantic:
- You are currently logged on to the largest version of the internet that has ever existed. By clicking and scrolling, you’re one of the 5 billion–plus people contributing to an unfathomable array of networked information—quintillions of bytes produced each day.
- (dated, British, Australia, long scale) A million quadrillion: 1 followed by 30 zeros, 1030.
- Synonym: (short scale) nonillion
Translations
a billion billion, 1018 — see also trillion
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a million quadrillion, 1030 — see also nonillion
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See also
- (1018): Previous: quadrillion. Next: sextillion.
- (1030): Previous: quadrilliard. Next: quintilliard.
- (ISO prefix): exa- (short scale).
Noun
quintillion (plural quintillions)
- (figuratively, slang, hyperbolic) Any very large number, exceeding normal description.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:zillion.
French
| ← 1024 | ← 1027 | 1030 | 1033 → | 1036 → |
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| Cardinal (traditional spelling): un quintillion Cardinal (post-1990 spelling): un-quintillion Ordinal: quintillionième | ||||
| French Wikipedia article on 1030 | ||||
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɛ̃.ti.ljɔ̃/, /kɥɛ̃.ti.ljɔ̃/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “quintillion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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