Meaning of multitrillions | Babel Free

Definitions

Multiple trillions.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“Its [the gut’s] five feet of large intestine contain a veritable zoo—upwards of 500 fungal, bacterial, and viral varieties with a total population in the multitrillions.”

“This kind of warfare [i.e., biological] would have us devouring the world’s children in a manner of speaking and those who are immunologically impaired, presuming we were going to immunize our own population but not those of the antagonist. Thus we would be conducting warfare which by definition would be indiscriminate rather than selective. We would lose control of the evolution of the bacteria that we would be releasing in the multitrillions.”

“When dealing with relatively small amounts, numerals do have the advantage of quickly sending information from the page to the reader’s brain. […] But when we start dealing with multimillions and multibillions, and (heaven forbid!) multitrillions, it’s a different ball game. Let’s consider again the $10,937,837,444.27 example.”

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