quintillion

See also: Quintillion

English

Etymology

From French quintillion.^[1] By surface analysis, quint- (“five”) +‎ -illion.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kwɪnˈtɪljən/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɪljən

Numeral

quintillion (plural quintillions)

Either of two very large amounts:
2. (US, modern British and Australian, short scale) A billion billion: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸.
  Synonym: trillion (long scale)
  - 2014, “Small Data: Those big numbers keep on coming”, in BBC News Magazine Monitor‎^[1], BBC:
    Last week, we used […] the BBC News website's biggest number: 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, that's 9.2 quintillion […] [the maximum video viewer count on YouTube's] updated counter software.
  - 2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 1, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation‎^[2], 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32:
    “I’m not sure I understand why we have to send a quadrillion-credit mission to another galaxy.”
    He looked fleetingly amused. “Quintillion... and we don’t have a choice, Harper. Any of us, really, but humanity especially.”
  - 2023 December 18, Charlie Warzel, “Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore”, in The Atlantic‎^[3]:
    You are currently logged on to the largest version of the internet that has ever existed. By clicking and scrolling, you’re one of the 5 billion–plus people contributing to an unfathomable array of networked information—quintillions of bytes produced each day.
4. (dated, British, Australia, long scale) A million quadrillion: 1 followed by 30 zeros, 10³⁰.
  Synonym: (short scale) nonillion
(colloquial, hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number.
Near-synonyms: gazillion; see also Thesaurus:zillion

He had like a quintillion excuses for why he couldn't meet his obligation to me.

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Translations

a billion billion, 10¹⁸ — see also trillion

Armenian: կվինտիլիոն (hy) (kvintilion), եռիլիոն (hy) (eṙilion)
Catalan: trilió (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 百亿亿
Dutch: triljoen (nl)
Esperanto: triiliono
Finnish: triljoona (fi)
French: trillion (fr) m, milliard de milliards (fr) m
Galician: trillón (gl)
German: Trillion (de) f
Greek: πεντάκις εκατομμύριο (el) n (pentákis ekatommýrio)
Hungarian: trillió (hu)
Icelandic: trilljón f
Italian: trilione (it) m
Japanese: 百京 (hyakkei)
Korean: 백경 (baekgyeong)
Malay: kuintilion (ms)
Manchu: ᡨᠠᠩᡤᡡ
ᠵᡳᡵᡠᠨ (tanggū jirun)
Polish: trylion (pl) m
Portuguese: trilião (pt) m (Angola, Portugal) quintilhão (pt) m (Brazil)
Russian: квинтиллио́н (ru) m (kvintillión)
Spanish: trillón (es) m
Swedish: triljon (sv)
Turkish: kentilyon (tr), pekken
Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} tỷ tỷ (vi)

a million quadrillion, 10³⁰ — see also nonillion

Armenian: հնգիլիոն (hngilion)
Catalan: quintilió (ca)
Dutch: quintiljoen (nl)
Esperanto: kviniliono
Finnish: kvintiljoona (fi)
French: quintillion (fr) m
German: Quintillion (de) f, Quinquillion f
Greek: εννεάκις εκατομμύριο (el) n (enneákis ekatommýrio)
Italian: quintilione (it) m
Japanese: 百穣 (hyaku-jō)
Manchu: ᡨᠠᠩᡤᡡ
ᠴᠠᡴᠴᡳᠨ (tanggū cakcin)
Portuguese: quintilião (Angola, Portugal), nonilhão (pt) m (Brazil)
Spanish: quintillón (es) m
Ukrainian: квінтильйон (uk) (kvintylʹjon)
Vietnamese: (lit. "ten to the thirtieth power") ^{(please verify)} mười luỹ thừa ba mươi , ^{(please verify)} ngàn tỷ tỷ tỷ , ^{(please verify)} nghìn tỷ tỷ tỷ (vi)

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