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Definition of quintillion in English: quintillioncardinal number kwɪnˈtɪljənkwɪnˈtɪljən 1A thousand raised to the power of six (10¹⁸). Example sentencesExamples - At present, the planet holds more than a quintillion tons of the world's most essential resource, which can be found everywhere from the pulpy interior of desert cacti to tropical cloud canopies.
- A pair of flies beginning operation in April, if all were to live, would result in 191,010,000,000,000,000,000 (191 quintillion, 10 quadrillion) flies by August.
- The mass of the earth has been estimated to be 6 sextillion, 588 quintillion tons.
- The human brain is made up of approximately 84 quintillion molecules that are woven together in incredibly complex strands and ribbons of clumpy gray goo.
- In the last decades of the 20c, however, the North American use has become universal, providing the set million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion.
- 1.1British dated A million raised to the power of five (10³⁰).
Derivatives ordinal number Created by scattering x rays off of water, the movies show electrons sloshing in water molecules, and each frame lasts just 4 attoseconds (quintillionths of a second). Example sentencesExamples - It generates the heat of the Sun, but only for quintillionths of a second, and in a very small space.
- Essentially, the corona rips open and blasts as much as 100 billion tons of material into space - equivalent to 100,000 battleships (but less than 46 quintillionths of the mass of the Sun).
- Scanning the pulse delay, they recorded a movie of surface plasmon fields at 330 attoseconds (quintillionths of a second) per frame.
Origin Late 17th century: from French, from million, by substitution of the prefix quinti- 'five' (from Latin quintus 'fifth') for the initial letters. Definition of quintillion in US English: quintillioncardinal numberkwɪnˈtɪljənkwinˈtilyən 1A thousand raised to the power of six (10¹⁸). Example sentencesExamples - In the last decades of the 20c, however, the North American use has become universal, providing the set million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion.
- The human brain is made up of approximately 84 quintillion molecules that are woven together in incredibly complex strands and ribbons of clumpy gray goo.
- A pair of flies beginning operation in April, if all were to live, would result in 191,010,000,000,000,000,000 (191 quintillion, 10 quadrillion) flies by August.
- The mass of the earth has been estimated to be 6 sextillion, 588 quintillion tons.
- At present, the planet holds more than a quintillion tons of the world's most essential resource, which can be found everywhere from the pulpy interior of desert cacti to tropical cloud canopies.
- 1.1British dated A million raised to the power of five (10³⁰).
Origin Late 17th century: from French, from million, by substitution of the prefix quinti- ‘five’ (from Latin quintus ‘fifth’) for the initial letters. |