octillion

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
15
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ɒkˈtɪl.iː.ən/ (UK)

Definition of octillion

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

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  1. (Australia, British, US, modern)A thousand trillion trillion, a billion billion billion: 1 followed by 27 zeros, 10²⁷.
    “Altogether it takes seven billion billion billion (that’s 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or seven octillion) atoms to make you.”
    “We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life spans of a couple octillion attoseconds. And an attosecond is an eternity compared with the lifetime of the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for one-thousandth of an attosecond before decaying.”
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  1. (Australia, British, US, modern)A thousand trillion trillion, a billion billion billion: 1 followed by 27 zeros, 10²⁷.
    “Altogether it takes seven billion billion billion (that’s 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or seven octillion) atoms to make you.”
    “We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life spans of a couple octillion attoseconds. And an attosecond is an eternity compared with the lifetime of the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for one-thousandth of an attosecond before decaying.”
  2. (Australia, British, dated)A trillion quintillion: 1 followed by 48 zeros, 10⁴⁸.

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Etymology

From French octillion. By surface analysis, oct- (“eight”) + -illion.

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