novemdecillion

== English == === Alternative forms === novendecillion === Etymology === From Latin novemdec(im) (“nineteen”) +‎ -illion; compare tredecillion, quattuordecillion, etc. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌnoʊvəmdəˈsɪl.i.ən/ Rhymes: -ɪljən === Numeral === novemdecillion (plural novemdecillions) (US, modern British & Australian, short scale, rare) 1060. (dated, British & Australian, long scale, rare) 10114. (colloquial, hyperbolic) A very large but unspecified number (of). 2000–2006: Quantum Mechanics, Abarim Publications [2] ‘When we say 2 we mean exactly 2, not 2,00001 or 2,0000000000000001 or 2 with a novemdecillion zeroes and then a 1...’. 2002 CE: James C. Mayer, ‘Student-Led Poetry Workshops’ (which appears in ‘The English Journal’, volume 91, number 3, ‘Teaching and Writing Poetry’) ‘I then looked into the zatetic forest behind it / And saw a nonillion, no, a novemdecillion of them!’. [3] ([4]) ‘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’. ==== Synonyms ==== undevigintillion (rare) (1060): a long scale decillion ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== (short and long scale) Previous: octodecillion. Next: vigintillion. === References ===