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sextillions

sextillions is the plural of sextillion.

Meaning of sextillion

Numeral

sextillion (plural sextillions)

  1. (Australia, UK, US, short scale) A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 10²¹.
    Synonyms:
    1021
  2. (Australia, UK, dated, long scale) A million quintillion: 1 followed by 36 zeros, 10³⁶.
    • [W]e take now to name them by Millions of Millions of Millions, it is hard to go beyond eighteen, or at moſt four and twenty decimal Progreſſions, without confuſion. But to ſhew how much diſtinct Names conduce to our well reckoning, or having uſeful Ideas of Numbers, let us ſet all these following...1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “Of Number”, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book II, § 6, page 99

Questions about sextillions

What is sextillions the plural of?
Sextillions is the plural of sextillion.

Words near sextillions in the dictionary

  1. sextiles
  2. sextillion
  3. sextillionaire
  4. sextillionaires
  5. sextillionfold
  6. sextillions
  7. sextillionth
  8. sextillionths
  9. sextine
  10. sextines
  11. sexting

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