quintillion

See also: Quintillion

English

Etymology

quint- (“five”) +‎ -illion

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪljən

Numeral

quintillion

1. (US, modern British & Australian, short scale) A billion billion: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸.
   • 2014, BBC News Magazine Monitor, Small Data: Those big numbers keep on coming, 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.

2. (dated, British & Australian, long scale) A million quadrillion: 1 followed by 30 zeros, 10³⁰.

Synonyms

• 10¹⁸: a long scale trillion
• 10³⁰: a short scale nonillion

Translations

a billion billion, 10¹⁸

• 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
• German: Trillion (de) f
• Greek: πεντάκις εκατομμύριο (el) n (pentákis ekatommýrio) (pentákis ekatommýrio)
• Hungarian: trillió (hu)
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• Icelandic: trilljón f
• Italian: trilione (it) m
• Japanese: 百京 (hyakkei)
• Korean: 백경 (baekgyeong)
• Malay: kuintilion
• Polish: trylion (pl) m
• Portuguese: quintilhão (pt) m, quintilião m
• Russian: квинтиллио́н (ru) m (kvintillión)
• Spanish: trillón (es) m
• Swedish: triljon (sv)
• Turkish: kentilyon (tr)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} tỷ tỷ (vi)

a million quadrillion, 10³⁰

• Catalan: quintilió (ca)
• Dutch: quintiljoen (nl)
• Esperanto: kviniliono
• Finnish: kvintiljoona (fi)
• French: quintillion (fr) m
• German: Quintillion (de) f, Quinquillion f
• Greek: εννεάκις εκατομμύριο n (enneákis ekatommýrio) (enneákis ekatommýrio)
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• Italian: quintilione (it) m
• Japanese: 百穣 (hyaku-jō)
• Portuguese: nonilhão (pt) m, nonilião m
• 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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Translations to be checked

• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} kvintiljon
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• Latin: ^{(please verify)} quintillio

See also

• (short and long scale) Previous: quadrillion. Next: sextillion.
• (ISO prefix): exa- (short scale).

Noun

quintillion (plural quintillions)

1. (figuratively, slang, hyperbolic) Any very large number, exceeding normal description.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:zillion.

Translations

any very large number

• French: milliard (fr) m, milliards (fr) m pl, million (fr) m, millions (fr) m pl
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• Portuguese: zilhão (pt) m

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛ̃.ti.ljɔ̃/

Numeral

quintillion

1. 10³⁰; a quintillion by the long scale; a short scale nonillion.

Usage notes

• Previous: quadrilliard, 10²⁷
• Next: quintilliard, 10³³

Further reading

• “quintillion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.