septillions

septillions
n. (USA) number equal to 10 to the 24th power; (British) number equal to 10 to the 42nd power

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  • oct- — oct(a) , octi , octo ♦ Éléments, du lat. octo « huit ». oct , octa , octi , octo . éléments, du lat. octo, huit . ⇒OCT(A) , OCTI , OCTO , (OCT , OCTA )élém. formant Élém. tiré du lat. octo «huit», lui même du gr. «huit» …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • octa- — oct(a) , octi , octo ♦ Éléments, du lat. octo « huit ». oct , octa , octi , octo . éléments, du lat. octo, huit . ⇒OCT(A) , OCTI , OCTO , (OCT , OCTA )élém. formant Élém. tiré du lat. octo «huit», lui même du gr. «huit», e …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • octi- — oct(a) , octi , octo ♦ Éléments, du lat. octo « huit ». oct , octa , octi , octo . éléments, du lat. octo, huit . octi V. oct . ⇒OCT(A) , OCTI , OCTO , (OCT , OCTA )élém. formant Élém …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • octo- — oct(a) , octi , octo ♦ Éléments, du lat. octo « huit ». oct , octa , octi , octo . éléments, du lat. octo, huit . octo V. oct . ⇒OCT(A) , OCTI , OCTO , (OCT , OCTA )élém. formant Élém …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • septillion — ● septillion nom masculin (de sept, d après quadrillion) Un million de sextillions (1042). ⇒SEPTILLION, subst. masc. A. Vieilli. Un millier de sextillions. (Ds Lar. 19e 20e, LITTRÉ, GUÉRIN 1892, QUILLET 1965). B. Un million de sextillions (1042) …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • octillion —   n. a million septillions (10 48); French & American a thousand septillions (10 27) …   Dictionary of difficult words

  • septillion — septillionth, n., adj. /sep til yeuhn/, n., pl. septillions, (as after a numeral) septillion, adj. n. 1. a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 24 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 42 zeros. adj. 2. amounting to one …   Universalium

  • octillion — [ɔktiljɔ̃] n. m. ÉTYM. 1520; de oct , et (m)illion. ❖ ♦ Rare. Million de septillions (1048) …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • yottabyte — n. 2 to the power of 80 (approximately 10 to the power of 24) bytes, or a million trillion megabytes. Example Citation: In ten years, the volume of online data accessible either on the Internet or on corporate networks is expected to approach a… …   New words

  • septillion — [sɛp tɪljən] cardinal number (plural septillions or (with numeral) same) a thousand raised to the eighth power (1024). ↘dated, chiefly Brit. a million raised to the seventh power (1042). Origin C17: from Fr., from million, by substitution of the… …   English new terms dictionary

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