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QUADRILLION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The number that is represented as a one followed by 15 zeros
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("quadrillion" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
Domain region:
France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The number that is represented as a one followed by 24 zeros
Example:
in England they call a septillion a quadrillion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("quadrillion" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
Domain region:
Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
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