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Quartet vs Quadrillion - What's the difference?

quartet | quadrillion |

As a noun quartet

is (music) a music composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument.

quartet

English

(wikipedia quartet)

Alternative forms

* quartette

Noun

(en noun)
  • (music) A music composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument.
    • A string quartet .
  • (music) The set of four musicians who perform a piece of music together in four parts.
    • A quartet of violinists .
  • A group of four.

    • Synonyms

    * group of four: foursome

    quadrillion

    English

    (long and short scales)

    Numeral

    (head)
  • A thousand trillion: 1 followed by fifteen zeros, 1015.
  • A million trillion: 1 followed by twenty-four zeros, 1024.

    • See also

    * peta- * yotta- * Previous: trillion. Next: quintillion.

    Synonyms

    * a billiard * a septillion

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (figuratively, slang) Any very large number, exceeding normal description.
  • * 1999 Beverly Lewis, A Perfect Match, Bethany House Publishers, p23
    • They'd never understand — not in a quadrillion years.
  • * 2000 J. D. Maples, Trojan Steers, Lomaland Books Inc, p58
    • Me, I never refuse a meal, and believe me I seen some heavy weather. I musta flown a quadrillion miles and I never did have a problem.
  • * 2004 Arthur Kopecky, New Buffalo: journals from a Taos commune, UNM Press, p143
    • The sky is so absolutely clear with a quadrillion stars.
  • * 2006 Evelyn Caro, The Flickering Attic Window, Trafford Publishing, p8
    • She's named after this famous singer from a quadrillion years ago.

    Synonyms

    * (any very large number) bajillion, bazillion, billion, dillion, fantillion, gadzillion, gagillion, gajillion, gazillion, godzillion, googillion, grillion, hojillion, hundred and one, infillion, jillion, kabillion, kajillion, katrillion, killion, kazillion, million, million and one, quintillion, robillion, skillion, squidillion, squillion, thousand and one, trillion, umptillion, zillion