octillion
English
editEtymology
editFrom oct- (“eight”) + -illion.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ɒkˈtɪl.iː.ən/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪljən
- Hyphenation: oct‧il‧li‧on, oc‧til‧li‧on
Numeral
editoctillion (plural octillions)
- (US, modern British and Australia, short scale) A thousand trillion trillion, a billion billion billion: 1 followed by 27 zeros, 1027.
- 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), pages 5–6:
- Altogether it takes seven billion billion billion (that’s 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or seven octillion) atoms to make you.
- (dated British and Australia, long scale) A trillion quintillion: 1 followed by 48 zeros, 1048.
Synonyms
edit- (1027): a long scale quadrilliard
- (1048): a short scale quindecillion
Translations
edita thousand trillion trillion, 1027
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a trillion quintillion, 1048 — see also quindecillion
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See also
edit- (short and long scale) Previous: septillion. Next: nonillion.
Anagrams
editFrench
edit← 1042 | ← 1045 | 1048 | 1051 → | 1054 → |
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Cardinal: un octillion Ordinal: octillionième | ||||
French Wikipedia article on 1048 |
Etymology
editFrom oct- (“eight”) + -illion.
Pronunciation
editNumeral
editoctillion m (plural octillions)
- quindecillion (1048)
- (dated) octillion (1027)
Further reading
edit- “octillion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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