quintillionth
- adjective
- /kwɪnˈtɪljənθ/
- She celebrated the quintillionth visitor to her science blog with a special post.
Examples
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The computer processed its quintillionth instruction in less than a second.
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The astronomer calculated the quintillionth star in the simulation universe.
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She finished in quintillionth place in the race.
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In a sequence, the quintillionth number is very large.
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She celebrated the quintillionth visitor to her science blog with a special post.
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In a sequence, the quintillionth number is very large.
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The astronomer calculated the quintillionth star in the simulation universe.
Compounds
- Specialized
A very tiny part equal to one divided by 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
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Surface Forms
Morphology
quintillionth = quintillion (transparent) = quintillion + th
Regular ordinal formation: the productive suffix '-th' added to the cardinal noun 'quintillion' yields the ordinal adjective.
Etymology
Quintillionth comes from quint- meaning 'five' and the familiar million, so it names the fifth -illion in the sequence million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion. So the quintillionth is the position that matches the number one quintillion.