sextillion
noun
a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 21 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 36 zeros.
sextillions
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pluralof sextillion.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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 Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
The earth weighs six and a half sextillions of tons, and the ocean one and a half quintillions.
From The Second Deluge by Garrett Putman Serviss
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 Thomas Love Peacock
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 Thomas Love Peacock
It embraces a mass of matter equal in weight to at least 2 sextillions, 200 quintillions of tons.
From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar A. Poe
