millillionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -ɪljən

数詞

millillion (plural millillions)

1. (US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 10.
   • 1996, Alfred Mitchell Bingham, The Tiffany Fortune: And Other Chronicles of a Connecticut Family, page 233:

     It must have been an older brother in the other bed, for I learned about a million, and went on to consider a billion and a trillion and a quadrillion, and so on to a “millillion,” and even that was not the end: the frightening notion of infinity came next.

   • 2007, Michael A. B. Deakin, Name of the Number, page 21:

     However, by the time we reach 10, an undecillion, things are getting rather difficult. We finally run out shortly after 10, which would be a millillion.

   • 2020, Vladimir Kishinets, Bio-revolution & Futurology:

     However, there are sufficienly well-founded predictions about the world cosmological processes on a nonhuman scale of trillions, decillions and millillions of years, which predict in one way or another the end of the existing universe.

   • 2022, Grace Anthony, Hong Mengchu Kai: The Son of Fate Who Controls the Great Tribulation:

     He was shocked, but his body only moved with a millillion of a spear.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:millillion.

使用する際の注意点

Some lists of number names give an alternative interpretation, 10, the so-called long scale, which was not attested by actual use.

同意語

• millinillion