See nonillion in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for nonillion meaning in English (11.0kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "non",
"3": "illion",
"gloss1": "nine"
},
"expansion": "non- (“nine”) + -illion",
"name": "confix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "non- (“nine”) + -illion",
"forms": [
{
"form": "nonillions",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "numeral",
"3": "plural",
"4": "nonillions"
},
"expansion": "nonillion (plural nonillions)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "num",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "American English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "29 44 27",
"kind": "topical",
"name": "English cardinal numbers",
"parents": [
"Cardinal numbers",
"Numbers",
"All topics",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "34 60 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with non-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "47 48 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -illion",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1922 August, S. E. Chapman, “Potentiality of the Infinitesimals”, in The Pacific coast journal of homœpathy, volume 33, number 8, page 244",
"text": "As we have seen that one nought goes to each potency, for the thirtieth potency we will have for the denominator one followed by thirty noughts; or the original drop of drug in one nonillion drops of alcohol!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Raymond E. Fowler, The Melchizedek Connection →ISBN, [books.google.co.uk/books?id=rVbXhvS6C1oC&pg=PA70#v=onepage&f=true page 70]",
"text": "Do ya not be knowin' that there are 10 nonillion atoms within the likes of us?"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Desmond Walls Allen, Family History Detective: A step-by-step guide to investigating your family tree, Family Tree Books, page 9",
"text": "The figure is 1,267,700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. In layperson's terms, that's a little over 1.2 nonillion ancestors in the 100th generation.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Jim Berge, Prayer, Quantum Physics and Hotel Mattresses: Dissolving the Barrier Between the Seen and Unseen, Destiny Image Publishers, page 44",
"text": "Hugh: Just think of the tremendous gravity in a star like the sun. Its mass is a few nonillion pounds. / Henry: Nonillion? Are you making that up? / Hugh: No, it's just one of those things that sticks in my hyperactive brain. A nonillion is a number to the 30th power,...",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012 September 21, Cecil Adams, \"The Straight Dope\" (syndicated column)",
"text": "Making certain bold assumptions, my assistant Una determined that chilling the sun’s core to below 10 million degrees would require an ice cube 562,000 miles on a side. If you were planning on using standard-sized cubes from your kitchen freezer, you’d need about 45 nonillion of them."
}
],
"glosses": [
"10³⁰."
],
"id": "en-nonillion-en-num-KvTzOmRm",
"qualifier": "modern British & Australian; short scale; modern British & Australian; short scale",
"raw_glosses": [
"(US, modern British & Australian, short scale) 10³⁰."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "88 12",
"sense": "a long scale quintillion",
"word": "1030"
}
],
"tags": [
"US"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "nonilion",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "նոնիլիոն"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "hngilion",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "հնգիլիոն"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "quintilió"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "kviniliono"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "kvintiljoona"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "quintillion"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Quintillion"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Quinquillion"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "kvintillió"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "quintilione"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"alt": "ひゃくじょう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hyakujō",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "百穣"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "nonilion"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "nonilhão"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nonillion",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "нониллион"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "quintillón"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1819, George Gregory, A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences: including the latest improvement and discovery and the present states of every branch of human knowledge, volume 1, Collins and Co, page 248",
"text": "The first six figures from the right hand are called the unit period, the next six the million period, after which the trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, and nonillion periods, follow in their order.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1837, James Utting, “Of a conjunction of the Sun, Moon, planets, and satellites”, in The Mechanics Magazine, volume 26, page 381",
"text": "There may be stars placed at a distance from us so remote, that a body moving with a volicity (sic.) of a nonillion of miles in one second of time, would occupy a nonillion of years in passing from them to our earth!! [Footnote: A nonillion is a million nine times repeated; Its value is equal to unity followed by 54 cyphers.]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1886, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, “The Calculus of Probabilities Applied to Psychical Research. II.”, in Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, volume 4, page 205",
"text": "The odds against the observed event having a purely fortuitous origin are a ⁴trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion (a nonillion nonillion) to one — odds to describe whose vastness \"number fails.\"\n⁴ As I understand, a million million is a billion, a million billion is a trillion, a million trillion is a quadrillion, and so on up to a nonillion.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Henry Gobus, Human Ascent",
"text": "Evolution started with an astronomical population explosion in the bacterial phase of five-nonillion†.\n†Gobus defines nonillion as 10⁵⁴ but has probably mistaken the meaning of nonillion in his sources concerning the number of bacteria. The true figure is 5x10³⁰, i.e. five short nonillion (Whitman et al., 1998).",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"10⁵⁴."
],
"id": "en-nonillion-en-num-9AJMs1D4",
"qualifier": "dated British & Australian; long scale; dated British & Australian; long scale",
"raw_glosses": [
"(dated British & Australian, long scale) 10⁵⁴."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "14 86",
"sense": "a short scale septendecillion",
"word": "1054"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "10 90",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "1054 — see also septendecillion",
"word": "naŭiliono"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 90",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "1054 — see also septendecillion",
"word": "noniljoona"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 90",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "1054 — see also septendecillion",
"word": "nonillion"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 90",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "1054 — see also septendecillion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Nonillion"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 90",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "1054 — see also septendecillion",
"word": "nonilione"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 90",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "1054 — see also septendecillion",
"word": "nonillón"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"rhymes": "-ɪljən"
}
],
"word": "nonillion"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "non",
"3": "illion",
"gloss1": "nine"
},
"expansion": "non- (“nine”) + -illion",
"name": "confix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "non- (“nine”) + -illion",
"forms": [
{
"form": "nonillions",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "nonillion (plural nonillions)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English hyperboles",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "58 40 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "56 42 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "47 48 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -illion",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1922, E. E. Cummings, The Enormous Room",
"text": "Who are a million, a trillion, a nonillion young men? All are standing. I am standing. We are wedged in and on and over and under each other. Sardines.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1995, Jay Carty, Playing The Odds: Eternity's Your Bet, page 90",
"text": "How about a year, or a lifetime, or a really long time, like umpteen-jillion-quadtrillion-nonillion-decillion-billion years? Now that would be a long time in the fire",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1999, Dennis L. Soden, Brent Steel, Handbook of global environmental policy and administration, page 112",
"text": "Without any further information it would be easy to conclude that the National Park Service could raise as much as $500 nonillion in entrance fee revenues by charging entrance fees to those other 90% of the visitors who do not now pay",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2002 CE: James C. Mayer, ‘Student-Led Poetry Workshops’ (which appears in ‘The English Journal’, volume 91, number 3, ‘Teaching and Writing Poetry’)",
"text": "‘I then looked into the zatetic forest behind it / And saw a nonillion, no, a novemdecillion of them!’."
},
{
"ref": "2011, Ronald Clark, The Man Who Broke Purple",
"text": "But we have nonillion dollars invested in them at NSA. When I was active in the organization I objected strenuously but the boys then wouldn't listen to this 'old fogey'.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An unspecified very large number."
],
"id": "en-nonillion-en-noun-ibvSP5X2",
"raw_glosses": [
"(hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number."
],
"related": [
{
"sense": "short and long scale",
"word": "Previous: octillion. Next: decillion."
}
],
"tags": [
"excessive"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unspecified very large number",
"word": "tsiljoona"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"rhymes": "-ɪljən"
}
],
"word": "nonillion"
}
{
"categories": [
"English cardinal numbers",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English numerals",
"English terms prefixed with non-",
"English terms suffixed with -illion",
"Rhymes:English/ɪljən",
"Rhymes:English/ɪljən/3 syllables"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "non",
"3": "illion",
"gloss1": "nine"
},
"expansion": "non- (“nine”) + -illion",
"name": "confix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "non- (“nine”) + -illion",
"forms": [
{
"form": "nonillions",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "numeral",
"3": "plural",
"4": "nonillions"
},
"expansion": "nonillion (plural nonillions)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "num",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1922 August, S. E. Chapman, “Potentiality of the Infinitesimals”, in The Pacific coast journal of homœpathy, volume 33, number 8, page 244",
"text": "As we have seen that one nought goes to each potency, for the thirtieth potency we will have for the denominator one followed by thirty noughts; or the original drop of drug in one nonillion drops of alcohol!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Raymond E. Fowler, The Melchizedek Connection →ISBN, [books.google.co.uk/books?id=rVbXhvS6C1oC&pg=PA70#v=onepage&f=true page 70]",
"text": "Do ya not be knowin' that there are 10 nonillion atoms within the likes of us?"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Desmond Walls Allen, Family History Detective: A step-by-step guide to investigating your family tree, Family Tree Books, page 9",
"text": "The figure is 1,267,700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. In layperson's terms, that's a little over 1.2 nonillion ancestors in the 100th generation.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Jim Berge, Prayer, Quantum Physics and Hotel Mattresses: Dissolving the Barrier Between the Seen and Unseen, Destiny Image Publishers, page 44",
"text": "Hugh: Just think of the tremendous gravity in a star like the sun. Its mass is a few nonillion pounds. / Henry: Nonillion? Are you making that up? / Hugh: No, it's just one of those things that sticks in my hyperactive brain. A nonillion is a number to the 30th power,...",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012 September 21, Cecil Adams, \"The Straight Dope\" (syndicated column)",
"text": "Making certain bold assumptions, my assistant Una determined that chilling the sun’s core to below 10 million degrees would require an ice cube 562,000 miles on a side. If you were planning on using standard-sized cubes from your kitchen freezer, you’d need about 45 nonillion of them."
}
],
"glosses": [
"10³⁰."
],
"qualifier": "modern British & Australian; short scale; modern British & Australian; short scale",
"raw_glosses": [
"(US, modern British & Australian, short scale) 10³⁰."
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1819, George Gregory, A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences: including the latest improvement and discovery and the present states of every branch of human knowledge, volume 1, Collins and Co, page 248",
"text": "The first six figures from the right hand are called the unit period, the next six the million period, after which the trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, and nonillion periods, follow in their order.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1837, James Utting, “Of a conjunction of the Sun, Moon, planets, and satellites”, in The Mechanics Magazine, volume 26, page 381",
"text": "There may be stars placed at a distance from us so remote, that a body moving with a volicity (sic.) of a nonillion of miles in one second of time, would occupy a nonillion of years in passing from them to our earth!! [Footnote: A nonillion is a million nine times repeated; Its value is equal to unity followed by 54 cyphers.]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1886, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, “The Calculus of Probabilities Applied to Psychical Research. II.”, in Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, volume 4, page 205",
"text": "The odds against the observed event having a purely fortuitous origin are a ⁴trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion (a nonillion nonillion) to one — odds to describe whose vastness \"number fails.\"\n⁴ As I understand, a million million is a billion, a million billion is a trillion, a million trillion is a quadrillion, and so on up to a nonillion.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Henry Gobus, Human Ascent",
"text": "Evolution started with an astronomical population explosion in the bacterial phase of five-nonillion†.\n†Gobus defines nonillion as 10⁵⁴ but has probably mistaken the meaning of nonillion in his sources concerning the number of bacteria. The true figure is 5x10³⁰, i.e. five short nonillion (Whitman et al., 1998).",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"10⁵⁴."
],
"qualifier": "dated British & Australian; long scale; dated British & Australian; long scale",
"raw_glosses": [
"(dated British & Australian, long scale) 10⁵⁴."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"rhymes": "-ɪljən"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "a long scale quintillion",
"word": "1030"
},
{
"sense": "a short scale septendecillion",
"word": "1054"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "nonilion",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "նոնիլիոն"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "hngilion",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "հնգիլիոն"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "quintilió"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "kviniliono"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "kvintiljoona"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "quintillion"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Quintillion"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Quinquillion"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "kvintillió"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "quintilione"
},
{
"alt": "ひゃくじょう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hyakujō",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "百穣"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "nonilion"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "nonilhão"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nonillion",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "нониллион"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "1030 — see also quintillion",
"word": "quintillón"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "1054 — see also septendecillion",
"word": "naŭiliono"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "1054 — see also septendecillion",
"word": "noniljoona"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "1054 — see also septendecillion",
"word": "nonillion"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "1054 — see also septendecillion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Nonillion"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "1054 — see also septendecillion",
"word": "nonilione"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "1054 — see also septendecillion",
"word": "nonillón"
}
],
"word": "nonillion"
}
{
"categories": [
"English cardinal numbers",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English numerals",
"English terms prefixed with non-",
"English terms suffixed with -illion",
"Rhymes:English/ɪljən",
"Rhymes:English/ɪljən/3 syllables"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "non",
"3": "illion",
"gloss1": "nine"
},
"expansion": "non- (“nine”) + -illion",
"name": "confix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "non- (“nine”) + -illion",
"forms": [
{
"form": "nonillions",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "nonillion (plural nonillions)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"sense": "short and long scale",
"word": "Previous: octillion. Next: decillion."
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English hyperboles",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1922, E. E. Cummings, The Enormous Room",
"text": "Who are a million, a trillion, a nonillion young men? All are standing. I am standing. We are wedged in and on and over and under each other. Sardines.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1995, Jay Carty, Playing The Odds: Eternity's Your Bet, page 90",
"text": "How about a year, or a lifetime, or a really long time, like umpteen-jillion-quadtrillion-nonillion-decillion-billion years? Now that would be a long time in the fire",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1999, Dennis L. Soden, Brent Steel, Handbook of global environmental policy and administration, page 112",
"text": "Without any further information it would be easy to conclude that the National Park Service could raise as much as $500 nonillion in entrance fee revenues by charging entrance fees to those other 90% of the visitors who do not now pay",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2002 CE: James C. Mayer, ‘Student-Led Poetry Workshops’ (which appears in ‘The English Journal’, volume 91, number 3, ‘Teaching and Writing Poetry’)",
"text": "‘I then looked into the zatetic forest behind it / And saw a nonillion, no, a novemdecillion of them!’."
},
{
"ref": "2011, Ronald Clark, The Man Who Broke Purple",
"text": "But we have nonillion dollars invested in them at NSA. When I was active in the organization I objected strenuously but the boys then wouldn't listen to this 'old fogey'.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An unspecified very large number."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number."
],
"tags": [
"excessive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"rhymes": "-ɪljən"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unspecified very large number",
"word": "tsiljoona"
}
],
"word": "nonillion"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.