quadrillion

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  1. noun The cardinal number equal to 1015.
  2. noun Chiefly British Septillion.

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  • Human adults may have as many as 500 trillion synaptic connections in their brains; a brainy three-year-old may have as many as a quadrillion. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#211
  • The computer performs one quadrillion (one million billion) computations per second. —  California Literary Review
  • "I think it's quadrillion or sextillion or something." —  WORLD Magazine | Community
  • A quadrillion isn't just a number they made up, it means a 1000 trillion. —  Ace of Spades HQ
  • Worse, about 95\% of that $1.14 quadrillion is on margin. —  Ace of Spades HQ
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  1. quadr(i)- + (m)illion.

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  1. from French quadrillion, from Latin quattuor (quadri-), = English four, + F. (m)illion, later English million.
 

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