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Sextillion vs Quadrillion - What's the difference?

sextillion | quadrillion |

As numerals the difference between sextillion and quadrillion

is that sextillion is (US; modern British & Australian, short scale) A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 1021 while quadrillion is a thousand trillion: 1 followed by fifteen zeros, 1015.

As a noun quadrillion is

any very large number, exceeding normal description.

sextillion

English

Numeral

(head)
  • (US; modern British & Australian, ) A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 1021.
  • (dated British & Australian, ) A million quintillion: 1 followed by 36 zeros, 1036.

    • See also

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

    Synonyms

    * 1036: a undecillion

    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