quintillionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /kwɪnˈtɪljən/
• 韻: -ɪljən

数詞

quintillion (plural quintillions)

1. Either of two very large amounts:
   1. (US, modern British and Australian, short scale) A billion billion: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10.

      Synonym: trillion (long scale)

      • 2014, “Small Data: Those big numbers keep on coming”, in BBC News Magazine Monitor‎, BBC:

        Last week, we used […] the BBC News website's biggest number: 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, that's 9.2 quintillion […] [the maximum video viewer count on YouTube's] updated counter software.

      • 2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 1, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation‎, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32:

        “I’m not sure I understand why we have to send a quadrillion-credit mission to another galaxy.”
        He looked fleetingly amused. “Quintillion... and we don’t have a choice, Harper. Any of us, really, but humanity especially.”

      • 2023 December 18, Charlie Warzel, “Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore”, in The Atlantic‎:

        You are currently logged on to the largest version of the internet that has ever existed. By clicking and scrolling, you’re one of the 5 billion–plus people contributing to an unfathomable array of networked information—quintillions of bytes produced each day.

   2. (dated, British, Australia, long scale) A million quadrillion: 1 followed by 30 zeros, 10.

      Synonym: (short scale) nonillion

2. (colloquial, hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number.

   Near-synonyms: gazillion; see also Thesaurus:zillion

   He had like a quintillion excuses for why he couldn't meet his obligation to me.

等位語

派生語

参考

• (10): Previous: quadrillion. Next: sextillion.
• (10): Previous: quadrilliard. Next: quintilliard.
• (ISO prefix): exa- (short scale).

名詞

quintillion (plural quintillions)

1. (figuratively, slang, hyperbolic) Any very large number, exceeding normal description.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:zillion.