long scale
nounEtymology Calque of French échelle longue.
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A system of numeric names in which every new term with -illion greater than million is 1,000,000 times the previous term (e.g. a billion is a million million).
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- short scale
noun
Etymology Calque of French échelle longue.
A system of numeric names in which every new term with -illion greater than million is 1,000,000 times the previous term (e.g. a billion is a million million).
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