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novemdecillion

/ˌnoʊvəmdəˈsɪl.i.ən/

novemdecillion numeral: 10⁶⁰.

Numeral

novemdecillion (plural novemdecillions)

  1. (US, rare, modern British & Australian, short scale) 10⁶⁰.
    • It is one chance in a novemdecillion. For those who like to be precise, that exact statistic is one chance in 1,606,937,974,174,171,729,761,809,705,564,167,968,221,676,069,604,401,795,301,376.1962, Jerry D. Lewis, Crusade against crime, Random House, page 314
    • For an extreme example, see US Patent No. 5,422,351 (filed June 21, 1991). This particular patent includes a structural formula in claim 1 that encompasses at least one novemdecillion (10r^([sic]), or one followed by sixty zeroes) chemical compounds2010, SB Seymore, “Rethinking Novelty in Patent Law”, in Duke Law Journal
    Synonyms:
    1060
  2. (dated, rare, British & Australian, long scale) 10¹¹⁴.
  3. (colloquial, excessive) A very large but unspecified number (of).
    • 2000–2006: Quantum Mechanics, Abarim Publications http://www.abarim-publications.com/JessicaRabbitExplains.html
      ‘When we say 2 we mean exactly 2, not 2,00001 or 2,0000000000000001 or 2 with a novemdecillion zeroes and then a 1...’.
    • ‘I then looked into the zatetic forest behind it / And saw a nonillion, no, a novemdecillion of them!’.2002 CE: James C. Mayer, ‘Student-Led Poetry Workshops’ (which appears in ‘The English Journal’, volume 91, number 3, ‘Teaching and Writing Poetry’)

novemdecillion meaning in Malay

novemdecillion in Malay

1060 — see also decillion
novemdesilion

Examples of novemdecillion in a sentence

  • It has the shape of a disk, and is ten to the fifty-ninth power yojanas in circumference, a number called a novemdecillion, and is 1,600,000 yojanas deep.1998, Sean O'Shea, Meryl A. Walker, The Millennium Myth: The Ever-Ending Story, →ISBN, page 66:
  • Go up to 60 zeros -- that's a novemdecillion -- and you can measure the volume of the galaxy in cubic inches [...].2001 July 15, John Flanagan, “How much is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000?”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin, archived from the original on...
  • That means around 6.5 quindecillion novemdecillion percent a year—or 65 followed by 107 zeros.2008 December 22, Steven Hanke, “The Printing Press”, in Forbes:
  • grangs med, literally “without count,” is also said to indicate the number ten to the fiftieth or sixtieth power (novemdecillion).2011, Sarah Harding, Niguma, Lady of Illusion, page 286:

Synonyms of novemdecillion

Forms of novemdecillion

pluralnovemdecillions
alternative formnovendecillion

Origin of novemdecillion

From Latin novemdec(im) (“nineteen”) + -illion; compare tredecillion, quattuordecillion, etc.

Words that rhyme with novemdecillion

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Questions about novemdecillion

What does novemdecillion mean?
Novemdecillion means 10⁶⁰.
What is novemdecillion in Malay?
Novemdecillion in Malay is novemdesilion. See Novemdecillion meaning in Malay.
How do you use novemdecillion in a sentence?
It has the shape of a disk, and is ten to the fifty-ninth power yojanas in circumference, a number called a novemdecillion, and is 1,600,000 yojanas deep.
What part of speech is novemdecillion?
Novemdecillion is a numeral.
How do you pronounce novemdecillion?
Novemdecillion is pronounced /ˌnoʊvəmdəˈsɪl.i.ən/.

Words near novemdecillion in the dictionary

  1. Novembr
  2. Novembral
  3. Novembre
  4. Novembrish
  5. Novembry
  6. novemdecillion
  7. novemdecillions
  8. novemfid
  9. Novempopulania
  10. novemquinquagintillion
  11. novemtrigintillion

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