QUADRILLION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quadrillion mean? 

• QUADRILLION (noun)
  The noun QUADRILLION has 2 senses:

1. the number that is represented as a one followed by 24 zeros

2. the number that is represented as a one followed by 15 zeros

  Familiarity information: QUADRILLION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUADRILLION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The number that is represented as a one followed by 24 zeros

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Context example:

in England they call a septillion a quadrillion

Hypernyms ("quadrillion" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

Domain region:

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The number that is represented as a one followed by 15 zeros

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("quadrillion" 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 quadrillion, 10E15.

(Peta, NCI Thesaurus)