quadrillion
noun
qua·dril·lion
kwä-ˈdril-yən 
US
: a number equal to 1 followed by 15 zeros see Table of Numbers
quadrillion
adjective
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The broods will emerge peacefully, but Cooley said hundreds of trillions – or even quadrillions – of cicadas are expected.
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Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
An expert testified earlier that the odds of someone matching the blood type found to be Holton’s inside the apartment was 2.7 quadrillion to one.
—Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2024
The bowl cupped a spherical cloud of iron that acted as a radiator for the waste heat emitted by Paradise’s quadrillions of computing modules.
—Karl Schroeder, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2024
The agency embarked on a mission to an asteroid that could be worth $10,000 quadrillion this month.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2023
For example, all the current laws of physics actually break down at the Planck Energy, a quadrillion times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider.
—Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2021
With 334 million Americans in the U.S., this implies a valuation of around $400 quadrillion on the U.S. population.
—WSJ, 20 Sep. 2023
The World’s Earliest Story Around 13.77 billion years ago, our entire visible universe—every atom, every speck of dust, every star, and every galaxy—was crammed into a volume no bigger than a peach with a temperature of over a quadrillion degrees.
—Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2023
In the extremely distant past, around 13.77 billion years ago, our universe was the size of a peach and had a temperature of over a quadrillion degrees.
—Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 22 June 2023
Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
An expert testified earlier that the odds of someone matching the blood type found to be Holton’s inside the apartment was 2.7 quadrillion to one.
—Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2024
The bowl cupped a spherical cloud of iron that acted as a radiator for the waste heat emitted by Paradise’s quadrillions of computing modules.
—Karl Schroeder, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2024
The agency embarked on a mission to an asteroid that could be worth $10,000 quadrillion this month.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2023
For example, all the current laws of physics actually break down at the Planck Energy, a quadrillion times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider.
—Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2021
With 334 million Americans in the U.S., this implies a valuation of around $400 quadrillion on the U.S. population.
—WSJ, 20 Sep. 2023
The World’s Earliest Story Around 13.77 billion years ago, our entire visible universe—every atom, every speck of dust, every star, and every galaxy—was crammed into a volume no bigger than a peach with a temperature of over a quadrillion degrees.
—Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2023
In the extremely distant past, around 13.77 billion years ago, our universe was the size of a peach and had a temperature of over a quadrillion degrees.
—Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 22 June 2023
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