quintillion
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8.4
- noun
- /kwɪnˈtɪljən/
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quintillón
- The total estimated number of ants on Earth is about 20 quintillion.
- one quintillion
- 1 quintillion
- 18 quintillion
Might be, you know, a quintillion characters long.
- Might be, you know, a quintillion characters long.
- And then we have quintillions, institutio or oratoria.
- That's less in a quintillion chance of having those two collisions occur.
- And they have their banknotes with quintillions.
Examples
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Their energies could be a whopping one quintillion times the luminosity of the Sun.
Academic text (1994) -
If printed out, it would be something like 500 quintillion pages of text.
Blog text (18) -
Ten quintillion op-eds a day, so it's ten quintillion to one.
Fiction book (2001) -
You're lifting 200 quintillion tons.
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1 exabyte = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes; that's 1 quintillion bytes.
Blog text (18) -
Scientists estimate that there are approximately 10 quintillion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
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A quintillion is the number written as 1 followed by 18 zeros.
Synonyms
In old British use, a number equal to one million million million, written 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
How Big
1
8.4
1
7.5
21
2.8
330
1.0
- Informal
417
1.0
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
quintillion = quint + illion
The form shows the numeric prefix 'quint-' (five) combined with the '-illion' number-naming pattern, so the morphological pattern is visible, but the exact value (10^18) depends on learning the naming convention rather than simple composition.
Etymology
Quintillion comes from the prefix quint- meaning 'five', shown in words like quintet, and the familiar ending -illion from million. So it is the 'fifth' big number after million, billion, and trillion, which is why it means a one with eighteen zeros.