decillion

American  

[dih-sil-yuhn] / dɪˈsɪl yən /

noun

1. a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 33 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 60 zeros.

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adjective

1. amounting to one decillion in number.

decillion British  

/ dɪˈsɪljən /

noun

1. (in Britain, France, and Germany) the number represented as one followed by 60 zeros (10 ⁶⁰ )

2. (in the US and Canada) the number represented as one followed by 33 zeros (10 ³³ )

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Other Word Forms

• decillionth adjective

Etymology

Origin of decillion

1835–45; < Latin dec ( em ) ten + -illion, as in million

Example Sentences

Slow-moving neutrinos pass through matter more easily than fast-moving ones, so only a few, if any, of those 300 decillion neutrinos would interact with your hand at all.

From New York Times

Meanwhile, the Oxford Dictionary advises that the big number designations which follow quadrillion — quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion and decillion — are not likely to appear in any financial context too soon.

From Washington Times

This figure is so very large that we shall content ourselves with illustrating a decillion decillion, and for this purpose we avail ourselves of a method employed by Archimedes to illustrate his system of enumeration.

From Project Gutenberg

And just remember the decillions of ergs of energy that the sun is giving off!

From Project Gutenberg

And in our island here, I have five hundred thousand million separate power plants, each generating at the rate of decillions of ergs a second, backing this ship.

From Project Gutenberg