quintillion

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Numeral

1. (US, modern British & Australian, short scale) A billion billion: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸.
   • 2014, BBC News Magazine Monitor, Small Data: Those big numbers keep on coming ↗, BBC:

     Last week, we used...the BBC News website's biggest number: 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, that's 9.2 quintillion...[the maximum video viewer count on YouTube's] updated counter software.

2. (dated, British & Australian, long scale) A million quadrillion: 1 followed by 30 zeros, 10³⁰.

Synonyms

• (10¹⁸) a long scale trillion
• (10³⁰) a short scale nonillion

Translations

• French: trillion, milliard de milliards
• German: Trillion
• Italian: trilione
• Portuguese: quintilhão, quintilião
• Russian: квинтиллио́н
• Spanish: trillón

Translations

• French: quintillion
• German: Quintillion, Quinquillion
• Italian: quintilione
• Portuguese: nonilhão, nonilião
• Spanish: quintillón

Noun

quintillion (plural quintillions)

1. (figuratively, slang, hyperbole) Any very large number, exceeding normal description.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:zillion.

Translations

• French: milliard, milliards, million, millions
• Portuguese: zilhão

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