squillion
Étymologie
[modifier le wikicode]- (Années 1970)
Nom commun
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| squillion \ˈskwɪ.ljən\ |
squillions \ˈskwɪ.ljənz\ |
squillion \ˈskwɪ.ljən\
- (Familier) Un très grand nombre, de magnitude indéfinie.
Based on decades of medical research and larded with "squillions of cross-references," these books have made her [Adelle Davis] a folk heroine whom even doctors, whose advice she often contradicts, have come to respect.
— (Jane Howard, Earth Mother to the Foodists, Life Magazine, 22 octobre 1971)The word million was adequate for most things, billion came in handy on occasions, but if you wanted to use a word for a very, very large number, you just had to invent one. Anna invented one: a squillion.
— (Fynn [pseudonyme de Sydney George Hopkins], Mister God, This is Anna, Ballantine Books, 2000 (1re édition 1974), ISBN 0345441559, pages 102–103)You thinks to yourself, ‘There’s a billion, trillion squillion of them, no one’s going to notice.’ But that’s where professionalism comes in, sort of thing.
— (Terry Pratchett, Eric, 1990, page 138)It’ll just take a squillion times longer than the age of the universe to happen.
— (Xaonon, Re: Entropy, forum Google Groups talk.origins, 7 mai 2004)
Synonymes
[modifier le wikicode]- armadillion (Extrêmement rare)
- bajillion (Moins courant)
- bazillion
- dillion (Rare)
- gadzillion (Moins courant)
- gagillion
- gajillion
- gazillion
- godzillion (Moins courant)
- googillion (Rare)
- grillion (Moins courant)
- hojillion (Rare)
- infillion (Extrêmement rare)
- jillion (Moins courant)
- kabillion (Moins courant)
- kajillion (Moins courant)
- katrillion (Rare)
- kazillion (Moins courant)
- killion (Moins courant)
- robillion (Rare)
- skillion (Moins courant)
- umptillion (Moins courant)
- wazillion (Extrêmement rare)
- zillion
Dérivés
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