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 

• QUINTILLION (noun)

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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