1. The plural of octodecillion; the number represented by 1 followed by 57 zeros in the short scale (U.S. and modern British), or 1 followed by 108 zeros in the long scale (traditional British and European).
Usage: Used primarily in mathematics and scientific contexts.; The short scale (10^57) is standard in U.S. English.; Rarely used in everyday language.

Examples

• Octodecillions is an astronomically large number used mainly in theoretical mathematics.
• The physicist discussed numbers in the range of octodecillions when modeling particle interactions.
• In combinatorics, some calculations can yield results measured in octodecillions.
• Few real-world applications require counting to octodecillions.