vigintillion

See also: Vigintillion

English

Etymology

From viginti- +‎ (mi)llion.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /vɪdʒɪnˈtɪljən/
Rhymes: -ɪljən

Numeral

vigintillion (plural vigintillions)

Originally, in accordance with the long scale, the twentieth power of a million, 10¹²⁰; now (originally US), in accordance with the short scale, more usually 10⁶³.
- 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:
  After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.

Quotations

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Derived terms

Translations

10⁶³

Esperanto: dekiliardo
German: Dezilliarde f
Hungarian: decilliárd
Italian: deciliardo
Japanese: 千那由他 (せんなゆた, sennayuta)
Malay: vigintilion
Mongolian: үлэшгүй (mn) (ülešgüj)
Russian: вигинтиллио́н (ru) m (vigintillión)

10¹²⁰

German: Vigintillion (de) f

See also

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