(n.) According to the French notation, which is followed also upon the Continent and in the United States, a unit with fifteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the fourth power, or the number represented by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to the US Energy Information Administration, global energy demand will increase from 524 quadrillion British thermal units in 2010 to 820 quadrillion Btu in 2040 – a 30-year increase of 56%.
(2) Now DNA is used, which can identify an individual using his DNA to one in a billion, quadrillion or greater.
(3) The exabyte, a one followed by 18 zeroes worth of bytes; the petaflop, one quadrillion calculations performed in a single second.
(4) You can't tell what an individual molecule is going to do, but if you deal with trillions and quadrillions and quintillions, you can tell very accurately what they're going to do on average.
(5) Current levels of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD) in the general population can be accounted for by an average level of 133 or 27 ppq (parts per quadrillion) in food based on an estimated half-life in humans of 1 or 5 yr, respectively.
(6) Oh, and a German "Billiarde" is a French "quadrillion" .
Zillion
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Anyway, what happened to inserting fantastic zillion-Euro-buyout-clauses nobody (bar Real Madrid, maybe) would ever be willing to trigger?
(2) Rays 1 - Red Sox 5, bottom of the 4th Stephen Drew, 0-zillion against David Price, is up next.
(3) So when you see your children taking a zillion photos of things that you would never take a picture of, it’s because they’re using photographs to talk,” said Snapchat’s chief executive, Evan Spiegel, in a recent video posted online to explain the app to parents.
(4) Star Wars: The Force Awakens is merely the ultimate iteration of this formula, gussied up with the aid of the zillion new online platforms for advertising, fan-stoking and tie-in merchandising (something that didn’t really come into play until the widely derided cuddly toys of Return of the Jedi in 1983).
(5) I think people inside Apple thought, ‘Fine, he’s making us zillions.
(6) And that's not rocket science, it won't cost zillions of dollars.
(7) You can research and read for a million years and a zillion books, but it doesn’t make it happen in front of a camera.
(8) One source said: "People may say we're going soft on business, but we're getting in zillions in tax."
(9) If we spend a zillion dollars defending Wimbledon and terrorists blow up a different sporting event, that's money wasted.
(10) There were zillions of examples of this on the London fashion week catwalks, but the winning ones were at Antonio Berardi and at Christopher Kane .
(11) Washing your face can be an act of pollution if you use a cleaner that contains zillions of plastic microbeads for exfoliation.