quintillion

IPA: kwɪntˈɪɫjʌn

(figuratively, slang, hyperbolic) Any very large number, exceeding normal description.

Examples of "quintillion" in Sentences

So 5 quintillion bits per second.
Now multiply that by a quintillion.
A quintillion would take longer than the age of the universe.
To do a cube with that diameter would take a quintillion scans.
And yes, "quintillion" is a number so large, it almost seems made-up.
But you can't write down, say, a string of a quintillion symbols, either.
One quintillion is equal to one billion billion, written as a one followed by 18 zeroes.
(An exabyte is 1 quintillion bytes; a quintillion is the number 1 followed by 18 zeroes.)
Professor MORLEY DAVIDSON (Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University): A quintillion is a billion, billion.
Mr. Skaugen noted that the acquisition will help Intel achieve "exascale" computing performance by 2018, or a quintillion operations per second.
By 2018, Japan, the U.S. and China are targeting the development of supercomputer capable of doing 1 quintillion 1 million trillion calculations per second.
Then, the super prominence snapped, releasing a quintillion tons of plasma in a conical plum headed toward the Arcturian homeworld at nearly the speed of light.
"The odds of it happening are almost infinitesimally small, or precisely 1 in 2,432,902,008,176,640,000 roughly two and a half quintillion to one," begins Guy Griffiths in an email that we wished had arrived in the Knowledge inbox before we went through the past 120 years of English football tables.