quintillion
/kwɪnˈtɪljən/
quintillion numeral: a billion billion: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸; one million million million.
Numeral
quintillion (plural quintillions)
- A billion billion: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸; one million million million.
- 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.2014, “Small Data: Those big numbers keep on coming”, in BBC News Magazine Monitor, BBC
- “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.”2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 1, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32
- Synonyms:
- trillion[long scale]]>
- A million quadrillion: 1 followed by 30 zeros, 10³⁰.
- Synonyms:
- nonillion
- An unspecified very large number.
- Near-synonyms: gazillion; see also Thesaurus:zillion
- He had like a quintillion excuses for why he couldn't meet his obligation to me.
- Synonyms:
- gazillion
Noun
quintillion (plural quintillions)
- Any very large number, exceeding normal description.
quintillion meaning in Tamil and Malay
quintillion in Tamil
- மகாபூரி, ஒரு பேரெண்
quintillion in Malay
- a billion billion, 1018 — see also trillion
- kuintilion
Synonyms of quintillion
Forms of quintillion
| Numeral | |
|---|---|
| plural | quintillions |
| Noun | |
| plural | quintillions |
Origin of quintillion
From French quintillion. By surface analysis, quint- (“five”) + -illion.
Words formed from quintillion
Words that rhyme with quintillion
- pavilion
- vermilion
- pillion
- billion
- novemdecillion
- trillion
- Brazilian
- Castilian
- centillion
- decillion
- duodecillion
- duovigintillion
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- million
- nonillion
- octillion
- octodecillion
- quadrillion
- quattuordecillion
- quattuorvigintillion
- quindecillion
- septendecillion
- septillion
- sexdecillion
- sextillion
- tredecillion
- trevigintillion
- trigintillion
- undecillion
- unvigintillion
- duotrigintillion
- gazillion
- gillian
- gillion
- godzillion
- gorillion
- Jillian
- jillion
- Kabylian
- Luxulyan
- mandilion
- mandylion
- Maximilian
- millillion
- millinillion
- novemtrigintillion
- novemvigintillion
- octogintillion
- octotrigintillion
- octovigintillion
- quadragintillion
- quattuortrigintillion
- quinquagintillion
- quinvigintillion
- septentrigintillion
- septenvigintillion
- sextrigintillion
- sexvigintillion
- squillion
- untrigintillion
- vigintillion
Questions about quintillion
- What does quintillion mean?
- Quintillion means a billion billion: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸; one million million million.
- What is quintillion in Tamil?
- Quintillion in Tamil is மகாபூரி, ஒரு பேரெண். See Quintillion meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is quintillion?
- Quintillion can be a numeral or a noun.
- How do you pronounce quintillion?
- Quintillion is pronounced /kwɪnˈtɪljən/.
Words near quintillion in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: quintillion (page history and authors); quintillion (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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