quintillion
number/kwɪnˈtɪljən/
/kwɪnˈtɪljən/
- the number 1018, or 1 followed by 18 zerosWord Originlate 17th cent.: from French, from million, by substitution of the prefix quinti- ‘five’ (from Latin quintus ‘fifth’) for the initial letters.
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