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单词 sextillion
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Definition of sextillion in English:

sextillion

cardinal number sɛksˈtɪljənsɛkˈstɪljən
  • 1A thousand raised to the seventh power (10²¹).

    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.
    • A further challenge is the humbling fact that the original cloud is billions of times wider and a hundred sextillion (100 x [10.sup.21]) times less dense than the star the models are trying to simulate.
    • The figure - 7 followed by 22 zeros or, more accurately, 70 sextillion - was calculated by a team of stargazers based at the Australian National University.
    • Translated into arithmetical terms, the result is 79 octillion, 228 septillion, 162 sextillion, 514 quintillion, 270 quadrillion with 15 zeros attached; that is 79, 228, 162, 270,000,000,000,000,000.
    • And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.
    1. 1.1British dated A million raised to the sixth power (10³⁶).

Derivatives

  • sextillionth

  • ordinal number
    • One amu is less than 200 sextillionths of a gram.

Origin

Late 17th century: from French, from million, by substitution of the prefix sexti- 'six' (from Latin sextus 'sixth') for the initial letters.

Rhymes

billion, jillion, million, bajillion, modillion, multibillion, multimillion, pillion, septillion, squillion, trillion, zillion
 
 

Definition of sextillion in US English:

sextillion

cardinal numbersɛkˈstɪljənsekˈstilyən
  • 1A thousand raised to the seventh power (10²¹).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A further challenge is the humbling fact that the original cloud is billions of times wider and a hundred sextillion (100 x [10.sup.21]) times less dense than the star the models are trying to simulate.
    • The figure - 7 followed by 22 zeros or, more accurately, 70 sextillion - was calculated by a team of stargazers based at the Australian National University.
    • And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.
    • 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.
    • Translated into arithmetical terms, the result is 79 octillion, 228 septillion, 162 sextillion, 514 quintillion, 270 quadrillion with 15 zeros attached; that is 79, 228, 162, 270,000,000,000,000,000.
    1. 1.1British dated A million raised to the sixth power (10³⁶).

Origin

Late 17th century: from French, from million, by substitution of the prefix sexti- ‘six’ (from Latin sextus ‘sixth’) for the initial letters.

 
 
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