trilliard

trilliard
   a unit of quantity equal to 1021, which is one sextillion in American terminology or 1000 trillion in traditional British terminology. The name is coined to parallel milliard, which has long been a name for 1000 million.

Dictionary of units of measurement. 2015.

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