Meaning of novemdecillion | Babel Free
/ˌnoʊvəmdəˈsɪl.i.ən/Definitions
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10⁶⁰. US, rare
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10¹¹⁴. dated, rare
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A very large but unspecified number (of). colloquial, excessive
Equivalents
Examples
“It is one chance in a novemdecillion. For those who like to be precise, that exact statistic is one chance in 1,606,937,974,174,171,729,761,809,705,564,167,968,221,676,069,604,401,795,301,376.”
“For an extreme example, see US Patent No. 5,422,351 (filed June 21, 1991). This particular patent includes a structural formula in claim 1 that encompasses at least one novemdecillion (10r^([sic]), or one followed by sixty zeroes) chemical compounds”
“It has the shape of a disk, and is ten to the fifty-ninth power yojanas in circumference, a number called a novemdecillion, and is 1,600,000 yojanas deep.”
“Go up to 60 zeros -- that's a novemdecillion -- and you can measure the volume of the galaxy in cubic inches [...].”
“The index tells us that Zimbabwe's inflation rate recently peaked at 80 billion percent a month. That means around 6.5 quindecillion novemdecillion percent a year—or 65 followed by 107 zeros.”
“grangs med, literally “without count,” is also said to indicate the number ten to the fiftieth or sixtieth power (novemdecillion). Still less than a googol!”
“2000–2006: Quantum Mechanics, Abarim Publications http://www.abarim-publications.com/JessicaRabbitExplains.html ‘When we say 2 we mean exactly 2, not 2,00001 or 2,0000000000000001 or 2 with a novemdecillion zeroes and then a 1...’.”
“‘I then looked into the zatetic forest behind it / And saw a nonillion, no, a novemdecillion of them!’.”
“‘The odds that one of the Cowboys linebacking corps reads this blog is one in... oh, let’s use a really big number... a novemdecillion’.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.