Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The cardinal number equal to 1021.
- noun Chiefly British The cardinal number equal to 1036.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun According to English and original Italian numeration, a million raised to the sixth power; a number represented by unity with thirty-six ciphers annexed; according to French numeration, commonly taught in America, a thousand raised to the seventh power; a thousand quintillions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun According to the method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-one ciphers annexed. According to the English method, a million raised to the sixth power, or the number expressed by a unit with thirty-six ciphers annexed. See
numeration .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
trillion billion : 1 followed by 21 zeros, 1021. - noun A
million quintillion : 1 followed by 36 zeros, 1036.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the number that is represented as a one followed by 21 zeros
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Estimates run between 70 sextillion a sextillion is a one with 21 zeroes after it to 3
Thestar.com - Home Page William Weir 2010
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Estimates run between 70 sextillion a sextillion is a one with 21 zeroes after it to 3
Thestar.com - Home Page William Weir 2010
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Estimates run between 70 sextillion a sextillion is a one with 21 zeroes after it to 3
Thestar.com - Home Page William Weir 2010
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Estimates run between 70 sextillion a sextillion is a one with 21 zeroes after it to 3
Thestar.com - Home Page William Weir 2010
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A billion trillion, also known as a "sextillion," could be written as a 1 followed by 21 zeros.
Boing Boing 2009
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A lawsuit against Bank of America on uncertain grounds is seeking nearly two sextillion dollars in damages:
Boing Boing 2009
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The country has suffered enormous economic problems inflation reached over 89 sextillion percent in 2008! and the arts community has had a difficult time creating a funding base.
Michael Kaiser: My Trip to Harare Michael Kaiser 2011
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I know the dollar has weakened lately, but a sextillion dollars would still be a lot of money.
Boing Boing 2009
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The estimated number of stars in the Universe is a mind boggling 70 sextillion (70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000), so plenty room out there for a few more wee worlds.
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How much more would the earth weigh if one sextillion ton of concrete and stone were used to build a large wall?
MindTrap Friday 2008
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