quintillion
noun
quin·til·lion
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Definition of quintillion
US
: a number equal to 1 followed by 18 zeros — see Table of Numbers
also, British
: a number equal to 1 followed by 30 zeros — see Table of Numbers
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Other Words from quintillion
quintillion
adjective
quintillionth
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Examples of quintillion in a Sentence
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Although the classic 3x3x3 cube has a mind-boggling number of possible configurations (more than 43 quintillion), solving it never requires more than 20 moves; most configurations require just 18. — The Economist, "Speedcubers are solving Rubik’s Cubes at ever-faster speeds," 11 July 2019 The object is estimated to weigh at least 2.18 quintillion kilograms (10 to the 18th power), and extend to depths of more than 300 kilometers. — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, "What is that mysterious mass under the huge crater on the dark side of the moon?," 13 June 2019 The machine was said to be capable of generating almost 159 quintillion permutations. — New York Times, "Overlooked No More: Alan Turing, Condemned Code Breaker and Computer Visionary," 5 June 2019 But the big target in supercomputer construction right now is building the first exascale computer, capable of a quintillion calculations per second. — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, "The U.S. Will Get the World's First Exascale Computer in 2021," 20 Mar. 2019 But the reward added up to nearly 18.5 quintillion grains of rice, or something like 318 billion tons. — Jo Craven Mcginty, WSJ, "Six Feet, 48 Hours, 10 Days: How to Avoid Flu," 4 Jan. 2019 Your chances of filling out a perfect bracket are like 1 in 9.2 quintillion (yes, that's an actual number), so don't sweat it out too much. — Cheryl Wray, AL.com, "March Madness 2018: How do I fill out NCAA basketball bracket?," 12 Mar. 2018 This is how the 1S-2S transition in hydrogen has been measured to 4 parts in a quintillion, about 1000 times more precise than the new antihydrogen result, Udem says. — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, "Atoms and antiatoms haven’t crashed Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity—yet," 4 Apr. 2018 Odds of filling out a perfect bracket are 1 in 9.2 quintillion (9,000,000,000,000,000,000), according to a USA Today article. — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Wauwatosa man keeps home after no one gets perfect NCAA bracket," 27 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'quintillion.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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