long scale

English

Etymology

Calque of French échelle longue.

Noun

long scale

1. A system of numeric names in which every new term with -illion greater than million is 1,000,000 times the previous term (e.g. a billion is a million million).

Related terms

• short scale

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: escala llarga f
• Esperanto: longa skalo
• French: échelle longue (fr) f
• Italian: scala lunga f
• Portuguese: escala longa f
• Spanish: escala larga f

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