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Sextillion
Sex-til′lion
,Noun.
[Formed (in imitation of
million
) fr. L. sextus
sixth, sex
six: cf. F. sextilion
.] According to the method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-one ciphers annexed. According to the English method, a million raised to the sixth power, or the number expressed by a unit with thirty-six ciphers annexed. See
Numeration
. Definition 2024
Sextillion
Sextillion
See also: sextillion
German
Numeral
Sextillion f (plural: Sextillionen)
- A long scale sextillion, 1036; a short scale undecillion.
Coordinate terms
Cardinal numbers from 0 till 99
Cardinal numbers from 100 onward
- 100: hundert, einhundert
- 103: tausend, eintausend
- 104: (Myriade)
- 106: Million (tausendmaltausend, tausendtausend)
- 109: Milliarde
- 1012: Billion
- 1018: Trillion
- 1024: Quadrillion
- 1030: Quintillion
- 1036: Sextillion
- 1042: Septillion
- 1048: Oktillion
- 1054: Nonillion
- 1060: Dezillion
- 1066: Undezillion
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- 10120: Vigintillion
- 10123: Vigintilliarde
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sextillion
sextillion
See also: Sextillion
English
Numeral
sextillion
- (US; modern British & Australian, short scale) A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 1021.
- (dated British & Australian, long scale) A million quintillion: 1 followed by 36 zeros, 1036.
See also
- (short and long scale) Previous: quintillion. Next: septillion.
- zetta-
Synonyms
- 1036: a short scale undecillion
Translations
a trillion billion, 1021
a million quintillion, 1036
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