Quintillions Meaning in English
word · lemma: quintillion
التعريف
'Quintillions' means extremely large numbers; in the US, it equals 1 followed by 18 zeros (1,000,000,000,000,000,000), and in some other countries, it can mean 1 followed by 30 zeros. The word is usually used to describe huge amounts, such as of stars or molecules.
الاستخدام والفروق الدقيقة
Used almost exclusively for very large, often theoretical quantities (astronomy, science, finance). In writing, it's usually plural because practical contexts rarely need this massive number. In the US ('short scale'), a quintillion is 10^18; in Europe ('long scale'), it can mean 10^30—context matters.
جمل نموذجية
There are quintillions of stars in the universe.
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Scientists estimate there are quintillions of molecules in a glass of water.
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Earth is about 4.5 quintillions of seconds old.
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It’s impossible to count to quintillions—you’d never finish in a lifetime!
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My calculator can’t even display numbers as big as quintillions.
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People say there are more than quintillions of grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth.
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