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单词 quadrillion
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Definition of quadrillion in English:

quadrillion

cardinal number kwɒˈdrɪljənkwɑˈdrɪljən
  • 1A thousand raised to the power of five (10¹⁵).

    (1, 000的5次幂)

    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. 1.1British dated A thousand raised to the power of eight (10²⁴).
      (1, 000的5次幂)

Derivatives

  • quadrillionth

  • 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).

    (1, 000的5次幂)

    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. 1.1British dated A septillion, that is, a thousand raised to the power of eight (10²⁴).
      (1, 000的8次幂)

Origin

Late 17th century: from French, from million, by substitution of the prefix quadri- ‘four’ for the initial letters.

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