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Octillion vs Pavilion - What's the difference?

octillion | pavilion |

As a numeral octillion

is a thousand trillion trillion, a billion billion billion: 1 followed by 27 zeros, 1027.

As a noun pavilion is

an ornate tent.

As a verb pavilion is

to furnish with a pavilion.

octillion

English

Numeral

(head)
  • A thousand trillion trillion, a billion billion billion: 1 followed by 27 zeros, 1027.
  • A quadrillion quintillion: 1 followed by 48 zeros, 1048.

    • See also

    * (short and long scale) Previous': septillion. ' Next : nonillion.

    Synonyms

    * 1048: a quindecillion

    Anagrams

    * cotillion English cardinal numbers

    pavilion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an ornate tent
  • a light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place
  • a structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc
  • (cricket) the building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals
  • a detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex
  • the lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet
  • (anatomy) the cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle
  • (anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
  • (military) A flag, ensign, or banner.
  • (heraldry) A tent used as a bearing.
  • A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
  • * Shelley
    • The pavilion of heaven is bare.

    Synonyms

    * (part of ear) auricle, pinna

    Related terms

    * papillon

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to furnish with a pavilion
  • to put inside a pavilion
  • (figuratively) to enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour")

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