sextillion
/sɛkˈstɪljən/
noun
- The number equal to 1 followed by 21 zeros (10^21) in the American system, or 1 followed by 36 zeros (10^36) in the British system.
- The national debt is nowhere near a sextillion dollars.
- Scientists estimate there are over a sextillion stars in the observable universe.
- A sextillion is an incredibly large number, hard to imagine in everyday life.
adjective
- Amounting to one sextillion in number.
- The computer processed a sextillion calculations per second.
- The company's valuation reached a sextillion dollars in the fictional story.
- There are sextillion grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth, some say.