Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The ordinal number matching the number quadrillion in a series.
  • noun One of a quadrillion equal parts.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Being one of a quadrillion.
  • noun One of a quadrillion parts; the quotient of unity divided by a quadrillion.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective The ordinal form of the number one quadrillion.
  • noun The person or thing in the quadrillionth position.
  • noun One of a quadrillion equal parts of a whole

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun one part in a quadrillion equal parts
  • adjective the ordinal number of one quadrillion in counting order

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Examples

  • The reason was not narrow-mindedness, but incompatible technology: the length of the waves in the whole electromagnetic spectrum of light range from gamma rays that are the size of the nucleus of an atom, a quadrillionth of a meter, to radio waves measured in meters; as a result, the telescopes for each band of wavelengths must be wildly different.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • The reason was not narrow-mindedness, but incompatible technology: the length of the waves in the whole electromagnetic spectrum of light range from gamma rays that are the size of the nucleus of an atom, a quadrillionth of a meter, to radio waves measured in meters; as a result, the telescopes for each band of wavelengths must be wildly different.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • The reason was not narrow-mindedness, but incompatible technology: the length of the waves in the whole electromagnetic spectrum of light range from gamma rays that are the size of the nucleus of an atom, a quadrillionth of a meter, to radio waves measured in meters; as a result, the telescopes for each band of wavelengths must be wildly different.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • The reason was not narrow-mindedness, but incompatible technology: the length of the waves in the whole electromagnetic spectrum of light range from gamma rays that are the size of the nucleus of an atom, a quadrillionth of a meter, to radio waves measured in meters; as a result, the telescopes for each band of wavelengths must be wildly different.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • So Quentin is bored and miserable except when he hides in his closet re-reading Fillory and Further for the quadrillionth time.

    The Magicians-Lev Grossman « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009

  • Femto is a decimal prefix that denotes one quadrillionth.

    House Calls 2009

  • Devised independently by Alan Guth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and by Russian physicist Andrei Linde, it holds that the universe began in the expanding fireball of the big bang and then inflated madly, doubling in size every tenth of a quadrillionth of a quintillionth (10-to the 34th power) of a second.

    'The Handwriting Of God' 2008

  • Towards the end of the game, around the time you've slaughtered your sixty quadrillionth Flood creature and passed through the same room eighty times, things do get vaguely interesting again and you experience an enjoyable jeep ride along the spine of an exploding starship.

    Halo: Combat Evolved Adam Whitehead 2007

  • Towards the end of the game, around the time you've slaughtered your sixty quadrillionth Flood creature and passed through the same room eighty times, things do get vaguely interesting again and you experience an enjoyable jeep ride along the spine of an exploding starship.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Adam Whitehead 2007

  • HARRIS: Nancy, according to police affidavit, there was semen found on her body that matched his DNA to the 100 and 240th quadrillionth.

    CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2006 2006

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