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What is the difference between zillion and quadrillion?

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Quadrillion is a synonym of zillion.



As nouns the difference between zillion and quadrillion

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

As a numeral quadrillion is

a thousand trillion: 1 followed by fifteen zeros, 1015.

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

    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