quintillion

See also: Quintillion

English

Etymology

quint- (“five”) +‎ -illion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwɪnˈtɪljən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪljən

Numeral

quintillion (plural quintillions)

1. (US, modern British & Australian, short scale) A billion billion: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸.

   Synonym: (long scale) trillion

   • 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.

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

   Synonym: (short scale) nonillion

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) (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 n (enneákis ekatommýrio) (enneákis ekatommýrio)
• Italian: quintilione (it) m
• Japanese: 百穣 (hyaku-jō)
• 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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Translations to be checked

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

See also

• (10¹⁸): Previous: quadrillion. Next: sextillion.
• (10³⁰): Previous: quadrilliard. Next: quintilliard.
• (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
• Portuguese: zilhão (pt) m

French

French numbers ^(edit)

←  1024	←  1027	1030	1033  →	1036  →
Cardinal (traditional spelling): un quintillion     Cardinal (post-1990 spelling): un-quintillion     Ordinal: quintillionième
French Wikipedia article on 1030

Etymology

From quint- (“five”) +‎ -illion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛ̃.ti.ljɔ̃/, /kɥɛ̃.ti.ljɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Numeral

quintillion m (plural quintillions)

1. nonillion (10³⁰)
2. (dated) quintillion (10¹⁸)

Further reading

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