Definition of quadrillion in English:
quadrillion
cardinal number kwɒˈdrɪljənkwɑˈdrɪljən
1A thousand raised to the power of five (10¹⁵).
Example sentencesExamples
- Thetans have been compulsively recording intergalactic history for several quadrillion years.
- The whole financial engineering industry is today a market with a notional value of approximately $1 quadrillion.
- IBM's new supercomputer, Blue Gene, may do close to one quadrillion multiplications per second.
- One child is killed for about every two quadrillion passenger-miles.
- Check out the table that shows the amount of energy that comes from different sources as measured in quadrillion BTUs.
- Electricity accounts for 39% of that, or about 160 quadrillion BTUs.
- Moving in association with this dust are an estimated 2 quadrillion microorganisms.
- It now stands at a quarter of a quadrillion dollars and is increasing at an accelerating pace.
- Others are known that are so very slightly unstable that their half-lives are trillions and quadrillions of years.
- The lesson continues this way up until the quadrillions.
- The U.S. transportation sector currently consumes 38 quadrillion BTU's of energy annually.
- A UK quadrillion would be one followed by 24 zeroes.
- If it makes a quadrillion, should Jones be proud?
- By comparison, on a sunny day the human eye is flooded by about 10 quadrillion photons per second.
- Each of them had been coated with quadrillions of luminescent particles.
- I'm sure they'd have fancy statistics saying that this added up to a quadrillion dollars in lost revenue.
- The last time I checked, one of them was 22 quadrillion.
- The U.S. today consumes about 100 quads - 100 quadrillion BTUs - of raw thermal energy per year.
- 1.1British dated A thousand raised to the power of eight (10²⁴).
Derivatives
ordinal number
A femtosecond is a millionth of a billionth (or one quadrillionth) of a second.
Example sentencesExamples
- With the neutrons traveling much, much faster, I estimate about 28 percent of the material will go critical in that quadrillionth of a second.
- In addition, LCLS X-ray pulses will be extremely short - lasting only femtoseconds, mere quadrillionths of a second.
Origin
Late 17th century: from French, from million, by substitution of the prefix quadri- 'four' for the initial letters.
Definition of quadrillion in US English:
quadrillion
cardinal numberkwäˈdrilyənkwɑˈdrɪljən
1A thousand raised to the power of five (10¹⁵).
Example sentencesExamples
- The last time I checked, one of them was 22 quadrillion.
- It now stands at a quarter of a quadrillion dollars and is increasing at an accelerating pace.
- If it makes a quadrillion, should Jones be proud?
- By comparison, on a sunny day the human eye is flooded by about 10 quadrillion photons per second.
- The U.S. transportation sector currently consumes 38 quadrillion BTU's of energy annually.
- Check out the table that shows the amount of energy that comes from different sources as measured in quadrillion BTUs.
- The lesson continues this way up until the quadrillions.
- Moving in association with this dust are an estimated 2 quadrillion microorganisms.
- IBM's new supercomputer, Blue Gene, may do close to one quadrillion multiplications per second.
- A UK quadrillion would be one followed by 24 zeroes.
- Thetans have been compulsively recording intergalactic history for several quadrillion years.
- Each of them had been coated with quadrillions of luminescent particles.
- Others are known that are so very slightly unstable that their half-lives are trillions and quadrillions of years.
- I'm sure they'd have fancy statistics saying that this added up to a quadrillion dollars in lost revenue.
- The whole financial engineering industry is today a market with a notional value of approximately $1 quadrillion.
- Electricity accounts for 39% of that, or about 160 quadrillion BTUs.
- One child is killed for about every two quadrillion passenger-miles.
- The U.S. today consumes about 100 quads - 100 quadrillion BTUs - of raw thermal energy per year.
- 1.1British dated A septillion, that is, a thousand raised to the power of eight (10²⁴).
Origin
Late 17th century: from French, from million, by substitution of the prefix quadri- ‘four’ for the initial letters.