sextillion

noun, often attributive

sex·til·lion | \seks-ˈtil-yən

Definition of sextillion

US : a number equal to 1 followed by 21 zeros — see Table of Numbers also, British : a number equal to 1 followed by 36 zeros — see Table of Numbers

Examples of sextillion in a Sentence

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If you were compressed into a black hole, for instance, the result would be 1 sextillion times smaller than a grain of sand. — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, "How Big Are Black Holes, Really?," 16 June 2017 Inflation peaked in 2008 at a year-over-year rate of 89 sextillion (that’s 89 with 21 zeros) percent, with one U.S. dollar equaling anything from 71 billion to 2.5 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars. — Karan Mahajan, The New Republic, "After the Strongman," 26 Mar. 2018 In a single second, the authors (an international collaboration working with Brookhaven National Laboratory’s STAR detector) saw the QGP goop rotate a mind-boggling sextillion times — a billion trillions. — Sylvia Morrow, Discover Magazine, "The Fastest Fluid," 1 Feb. 2018 If you were compressed into a black hole, for instance, the result would be 1 sextillion times smaller than a grain of sand. — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, "How Big Are Black Holes, Really?," 16 June 2017

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