Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The cardinal number equal to 1024.
- noun Chiefly British The cardinal number equal to 1042.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The cardinal numeral obtained from a septillion: used like
hundred . - noun In the British system of numeration, a million raised to the seventh power; a number expressed by unity followed by forty-two ciphers.
- noun In the French numeration, generally taught in the United States, the eighth power of a thousand; a thousand sextillions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun According to the French method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-two ciphers annexed. See
numeration .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
trillion trillion : 1 followed by 24 zeros, 1024. - noun A
billion quintillion : 1 followed by 42 zeros, 1042.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the number that is represented as a one followed by 24 zeros
Etymologies
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Examples
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The total cellular activity in one human body is staggering: one septillion actions at any one moment, a one with twenty-four zeros after it.
Archive 2009-06-01 Ren Allen 2009
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It now has two septillion Proto-synaptic connections.
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One septillion activities going on simultaneously, and your body does this so well you are free to ignore it, and wonder instead when this speech will end.
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One septillion activities going on simultaneously, and your body does this so well you are free to ignore it, and wonder instead when this speech will end.
Stirring speech Ren Allen 2009
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One septillion activities going on simultaneously, and your body does this so well you are free to ignore it, and wonder instead when this speech will end.
Archive 2009-06-01 Ren Allen 2009
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The total cellular activity in one human body is staggering: one septillion actions at any one moment, a one with twenty-four zeros after it.
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The total cellular activity in one human body is staggering: one septillion actions at any one moment, a one with twenty-four zeros after it.
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Just pony up $15 septillion (15 followed by 24 zeroes).
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One septillion activities going on simultaneously, and your body does this so well you are free to ignore it, and wonder instead when this speech will end.
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The total cellular activity in one human body is staggering: one septillion actions at any one moment, a one with twenty-four zeros after it.
Stirring speech Ren Allen 2009
hernesheir commented on the word septillion
n. The cardinal number equal to 1024.
n. Chiefly British The cardinal number equal to 1042.
A trillion trillion: 1 followed by 24 zeros, 1024.
A billion quintillion: 1 followed by 42 zeros, 1042.
(OCR errors in the definitions)
Nothing adds up for me lately.
December 31, 2011