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Definition of Sextillion

1. Noun. The number that is represented as a one followed by 21 zeros.

Definition of Sextillion

1. n. According to the method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-one ciphers annexed. According to the English method, a million raised to the sixth power, or the number expressed by a unit with thirty-six ciphers annexed. See Numeration.

Definition of Sextillion

1. Cardinal numeral. (''US; modern British & Australian, short scale'') A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 10²¹. ¹

2. Cardinal numeral. (''dated British & Australian, long scale'') A million quintillion: 1 followed by 36 zeros, 10³⁶. ¹

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Definition of Sextillion

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Literary usage of Sextillion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical Arithmetic by George Payn Quackenbos, George Roberts Perkins (1879)
"Ninety-eight sextillion, three hundred million, eleven thousand, ... Two hundred sextillion, and sixty-nine. 15. One trillion, one hundred billion, ..."

2. Popular Astronomy: A General Description of the Heavens by Camille Flammarion (1894)
"A cubic centimetre of air is composed of a sextillion of molecules. If in thought we lay these in a line, a millimetre apart, there will be a thousand along ..."

3. A Practical Arithmetic by George Payn Quackenbos, George Roberts Perkins (1875)
"Ninety-eight sextillion, three hundred million, eleven thousand, ... Two hundred sextillion, and sixty-nine. 15. One trillion, oue hundred billion, ..."

4. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential and Integral Calculus, with by Edward Albert Bowser (1886)
"For example, suppose we were to compare the mass of the sun with that of the earth : the latter weighs about six sextillion tons, the former weighs about ..."

5. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential and Integral Calculus by Edward Albert Bowser (1884)
"For example, suppose we were to compare the mass of the sun with that of the earth ; the latter weighs about six sextillion tons, the former weighs about ..."

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