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quintillion | mega |

As a numeral quintillion

is a billion billion: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 1018.

As a noun quintillion

is any very large number, exceeding normal description.

As an adjective mega is

very large.

quintillion

English

Numeral

(head)
  • A billion billion: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 1018.
  • * 2014 , BBC News Magazine Monitor, Small Data: Those big numbers keep on coming , BBC:
    • 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.
  • A million quadrillion: 1 followed by 30 zeros, 1030.

    • Synonyms

    * 1018: a trillion * 1030: a nonillion

    See also

    * (short and long scale) Previous': quadrillion. ' Next : sextillion. * ISO prefix: exa- ().

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (figuratively, slang) Any very large number, exceeding normal description.

    • Synonyms

    * See also .

    mega

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (informal) Very large.
  • * 2004 , Nigel Coates, Collidoscope: new interior design (page 26)
    • Follow those in the know to the fifth floor of Sega's Joy Polis, a mega indoor amusement park that's part of the Odaiba Decks Tokyo Bay entertainment complex near Tange's Fuji Television building.
  • great; excellent
  • * 1998 , John Barwick, Targeting Text (page 25)
    • We had a mega time until Peter fell in the fish pond and cut his leg.

    Related terms

    * mega-

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