octillion
- noun
- /ɒkˈtɪljən/
:
octillón
- There are octillions of stars in the universe, far more than we can ever count.
- 10 octillion
Examples
-
The real reason has to do with our vast wired network, the millions upon millions of interconnections we have made, the untold quadrillions, quintillions, and octillions of possible interconnections among these customers that are possible.
Fiction book (1997) -
But if you were to build a cosmic distillery to recover pure alcohol from the clouds, then there would be enough in the galactic bulge to fill approximately 100 octillion (1028) liters of 200 proof.
Academic text (1995) -
The total amount of money in the world is estimated to be around 15 octillion dollars.
-
In certain theoretical models, the number of possible configurations can reach up to an octillion.
How Big
- Archaic
- Specialized
1
8.4
- Informal
56
3.2
∞
1.0
- Informal
417
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
octillion = oct + illion
The word belongs to the conventional -illion numeral series, so the oct- cue is visible, but the exact value of 10^27 is learned by convention rather than directly from the morphemes.
Etymology
The word octillion comes from the root oct- meaning 'eight' and the ending -illion used to name very large numbers. Think of octagon or octopus, which also carry the 'eight' idea, to remember that octillion is the 'eighth' big -illion and so is written as 1 followed by 27 zeros.