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Quintillion vs Zillion - What's the difference?

quintillion | zillion |

Zillion is a synonym of quintillion.



As nouns the difference between quintillion and zillion

is that quintillion is any very large number, exceeding normal description while zillion is an unspecified large number (of).

As a numeral quintillion

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

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 .

    zillion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, hyperbole) An unspecified large number (of).
    • When I want to switch Groupwise domains I am forced to click the cancel button on a login dialog box a zillion times (I’m not exaggerating... much)
  • * 2008 , " Brain tests show child wealth gap", BBC News , 6 December 2008:
    • "We are certainly not blaming lower socioeconomic families for not talking to their kids - there are probably a zillion reasons why that happens."

    Synonyms

    * (unspecified large number) See also .

    Derived terms

    * zillionaire * zillionth