sextillion

American  

[seks-til-yuhn] / sɛksˈtɪl jən /

noun

sextillions, plural sextillion plural

1. a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 21 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 36 zeros.

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adjective

1. amounting to one sextillion in number.

sextillion British  

/ sɛksˈtɪljən /

noun

1. (in Britain, France, and Germany) the number represented as one followed by 36 zeros (10 ³⁶ )

2. (in the US and Canada) the number represented as one followed by 21 zeros (10 ²¹ )

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• sextillionth
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• sextillion
  plural
• sextillions
  plural

Etymology

Origin of sextillion

1680–90; < French < Latin sext ( us ) sixth + -illion, as in million

Example Sentences

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sextillion sextillions

During the worst of the crisis the government stopped publishing official inflation figures but one estimate put the inflation rate at 89.7 sextillion percent year on year in mid-November 2008.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2022

Less than one in about 600 sextillion, in fact, Cronin says.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 23, 2021

Put together, the oceans have taken in a whopping 228 sextillion Joules' worth of heat, the scientists concluded.

From Fox News ● Jan. 15, 2020

Your lungs will inhale and exhale about 300 sextillion oxygen molecules.

From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2019

Somewhere on this planet among its sextillion grains of sand.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The earth weighs six and a half sextillions of tons, and the ocean one and a half quintillions.

From The Second Deluge by Serviss, Garrett Putman

It embraces a mass of matter equal in weight to at least 2 sextillions, 200 quintillions of tons.

From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Poe, Edgar A.

In this he succeeded, and exhibiting his achievement in the afternoon, adorned the surface of the ice with successions of 898, till they amounted to as many sextillions, with their homogeneous sequences.

From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love

This method of printing did not succeed; for if twenty-four letters will give six hundred sextillions of combinations, no printing-office could keep a sufficient assortment of even popular words.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

While Lord Curryfin was cutting his sextillions, Mr. MacBorrowdale said: 'There is a young gentleman who is capable of anything, and who would shine in any pursuit, if he would keep to it.

From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love