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QUINTILLION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quintillion mean?
• QUINTILLION (noun)
The noun QUINTILLION has 1 sense:
1. the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros
Familiarity information: QUINTILLION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("quintillion" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
Domain region:
France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Context examples
A prefix indicating a quantity of one quintillion, 10E18.
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