Septillionth

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The person or thing in the septillionth position.
  2. 2
    One of a septillion equal parts of a whole.

    "We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life spans of a couple octillion attoseconds. And an attosecond is an eternity compared with the lifetime of the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for one-thousandth of an attosecond before decaying."

Adjective
  1. 1
    The ordinal form of the number septillion. not-comparable

Example

More examples

"We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life spans of a couple octillion attoseconds. And an attosecond is an eternity compared with the lifetime of the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for one-thousandth of an attosecond before decaying."

Etymology

From septillion + -th (ordinal suffix).

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