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nonillion

[ noh-nil-yuhn ]

noun

plural nonillions, (as after a numeral) nonillion.
  1. a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 30 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 54 zeros.


adjective

  1. amounting to one nonillion in number.

nonillion

/ əʊˈɪə /

noun

  1. (in Britain, France, and Germany) the number represented as one followed by 54 zeros (10 54)
  2. (in the US and Canada) the number represented as one followed by 30 zeros (10 30) Brit wordquintillion
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ԴˈԾDzԳٳ, adjectivenoun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • Դ·ԾlDzԳٳ noun adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of nonillion1

1680–90; < French, equivalent to non- (< Latin ōԳܲ ninth) + -illion, as in million million
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of nonillion1

C17: from French, from Latin ōԳܲ ninth, on the model of million
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Example Sentences

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The DNA recovered is “3.6 nonillion times” more likely to originate from Jones “than an unrelated individual selected at random from the U.S. population,” the affidavit states.

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At the same time, only a tiny fraction of the estimated ten nonillion, or 10³¹, phages have been discovered and categorized in a library.

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According to The New York Times’s Playoff Simulator, there are 325 nonillion ways the season could end.

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Meanwhile, the Oxford Dictionary advises that the big number designations which follow quadrillion — quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion and decillion — are not likely to appear in any financial context too soon.

What they lack in size they make up for in numbers: Marine census takers calculate there are a "nonillion" of them -- that's 1,000 times 1 billion, times 1 billion, times 1 billion.

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