sextillion

n. 千的七乘方, 百万的六乘方

发音

US /sɛksˈtɪljən/

词形变化

sextillions 复数 sextillions

释义与例句

num.
  1. 1.

    A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 10²¹.

    澳大利亚 美国
  2. 2.

    A million quintillion: 1 followed by 36 zeros, 10³⁶.

    澳大利亚 过时

词源

From Classical Latin sextus (“sixth”) + -illion; originally the sixth power of a million, 10³⁶. Compare slightly earlier quintillion, Middle French sixlion (1484) and French sextillion (1765). First attested in 1689 in John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (see the quotation).

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