millillion

English

Etymology

From milli- +‎ -illion.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪljən

Numeral

millillion (plural millillions)

  1. (US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 103003.
    • 1996, Alfred Mitchell Bingham, The Tiffany Fortune: And Other Chronicles of a Connecticut Family, page 233:
      It must have been an older brother in the other bed, for I learned about a million, and went on to consider a billion and a trillion and a quadrillion, and so on to a “millillion,” and even that was not the end: the frightening notion of infinity came next.
    • 2007, Michael A. B. Deakin, Name of the Number, page 21:
      However, by the time we reach 1036, an undecillion, things are getting rather difficult. We finally run out shortly after 103003, which would be a millillion.
    • 2020, Vladimir Kishinets, Bio-revolution & Futurology:
      However, there are sufficienly well-founded predictions about the world cosmological processes on a nonhuman scale of trillions, decillions and millillions of years, which predict in one way or another the end of the existing universe.
    • 2022, Grace Anthony, Hong Mengchu Kai: The Son of Fate Who Controls the Great Tribulation:
      He was shocked, but his body only moved with a millillion of a spear.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:millillion.

Usage notes

Some lists of number names give an alternative interpretation, 106000, the so-called long scale, which was not attested by actual use.

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