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quinquadecillion

quinquadecillion numeral: synonym of quindecillion.

Numeral

quinquadecillion

  1. (rare) Synonym of quindecillion.
    • According to present figures, all the matter in existence, in our own and other universes, weighs some 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons, or a little more in English tons. There is a simpler way to write it in figures, but the newspaper linotype has not...1936 January 8, “How Big Is Big?”, in San Francisco Chronicle, volume CXLVII, number 177, San Francisco, Calif.: George T. Cameron, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10 (Editorial Page), column 2
    • The universe, according to natural scientists, weighs 20 quinquadecillion tons.1936 April 26, “For the Scrapbook”, in Morning News, Florense, S.C., →OCLC, page 3, column 5
    Synonyms:
    quindecillion

Examples of quinquadecillion in a sentence

  • In words, it is twenty quinquadecillion tons.1936 January 8, “How Big Is Big?”, in San Francisco Chronicle, volume CXLVII, number 177, San Francisco, Calif.: George T. Cameron, →ISSN...
  • Physicist Seth Lloyd calculates that such a mythical material could compute on the order of 5 x 10^50 (500 quinquadecillion) calculations per second.2018 October 2, Steven Novella, “The Singularity”, in The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: How To Know What’s Really Real in a World...
  • For more than two quinquadecillion years, and another five quattuordecillion years, a slanderer of noble ones goes to hell, having aimed bad words and thoughts at them.2018–2023, Bhikkhu Sujato, transl., “AN 4.3 Broken (1st): Paṭhamakhatasutta”, in Numbered Discourses: A Sensible Translation of the...

Synonyms of quinquadecillion

Origin of quinquadecillion

From quinqua- (“five”) + decillion.

Questions about quinquadecillion

What does quinquadecillion mean?
Quinquadecillion means synonym of quindecillion.
How do you use quinquadecillion in a sentence?
In words, it is twenty quinquadecillion tons.
What part of speech is quinquadecillion?
Quinquadecillion is a numeral.

Words near quinquadecillion in the dictionary

  1. quinoxyl
  2. quinoyl
  3. quinpirole
  4. quinqu-
  5. quinqua-
  6. quinquadecillion
  7. quinquadragintillion
  8. quinquagenarian
  9. quinquagenarians
  10. quinquagenaries
  11. quinquagenary

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