Meaning of skillion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A room built against the back of another building, having a separate roof.
2. Any indefinitely large number.
   excessive, slang

Examples

“In fact, human experience⟳ requires not just one society but a nest of such societies, ordered in special ways. For instance, there need⟳ to be societies drawing out all the trains of thought that come⟳ together in a single judgment, and there need⟳ to be skillions of societies (a skillion is a very large number⟳) tracing causal inputs from the body, the atmosphere, gravitation, human culture, the New York Times, and whatever else provides the context for a single thought.”

“The trouble⟳ with the multiple-universe model⟳ is that, however elegantly it may fit the quantum equation for the state vector, most of us simply can't believe⟳ in skillions and skillions of universes—each as vast in space and time as the one we think⟳ we're in—where everything that can happen⟳ really does happen⟳.”

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