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

[French : Latin sextus, sixth; see sextile + French -illion (as in million, million, from Old French milion; see million).]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From the prefix sext- (six) + -illion (from million); ie the sixth power of a million, 1036.

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Examples

  • Estimates run between 70 sextillion a sextillion is a one with 21 zeroes after it to 3

    Thestar.com - Home Page William Weir 2010

  • Estimates run between 70 sextillion a sextillion is a one with 21 zeroes after it to 3

    Thestar.com - Home Page William Weir 2010

  • Estimates run between 70 sextillion a sextillion is a one with 21 zeroes after it to 3

    Thestar.com - Home Page William Weir 2010

  • Estimates run between 70 sextillion a sextillion is a one with 21 zeroes after it to 3

    Thestar.com - Home Page William Weir 2010

  • A billion trillion, also known as a "sextillion," could be written as a 1 followed by 21 zeros.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • A lawsuit against Bank of America on uncertain grounds is seeking nearly two sextillion dollars in damages:

    Boing Boing 2009

  • 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

  • I know the dollar has weakened lately, but a sextillion dollars would still be a lot of money.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • 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.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • 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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