long scale

English

Etymology

Calque of French échelle longue.

Noun

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).

Related terms

short scale

Translations

Translations

French: échelle longue (fr) f

Italian: scala lunga f

Anagrams

collagens

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