The term zillions can seriously mean "all the possible -illions", as in million, billion, trillion, etc. One million (1,000,000), or one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001. ... The word billion and its equivalents in other languages refer to one of two different numbers, depending on whether the writer is using the long or short scale. ... The numeral trillion refers to one of two number values, depending on the context of where and how it is being used. ...

Following the pattern of naming large multiples of 10, gazillion (like similar sounding numbers) is an indefinite and fictitious large number, a unit of imprecise measurement, used in exaggeration. The size is dependent upon the context to which it is used, but can typically be considered large enough to be unfathomable by the average human mind. // The standard dictionary numbers Throughout this article, exponential or scientific notation is used. ... Various meters In classical physics and engineering, measurement generally refers to the process of estimating or determining the ratio of a magnitude of a quantitative property or relation to a unit of the same type of quantitative property or relation. ... Hype! is also the name of a documentary film about grunge music. ...

There are variations in spelling and synonyms such as jillion, bajillion, bazillion, hojillion, squillion, skillion, kabillion, kajillion, kabajillion, bagillion, gajillion, skajillion, optillion, xellion, googillion, fafillion, umptillion, gagillion, infillion, gazoogol, zoogol, gozillion. See also Placeholder name. A placeholder name is used to refer to an object whose name is either irrelevant or unknown in the context which it is being discussed. ...

Typically, similar words are used in a humorous context, or used, perhaps childishly, in loose, unconfined conversation. The faux number is most commonly used when wishing to present an unguessably large number in a large, whether realistic or not, way. It is often used to impress someone with the concept of an ambiguous numerical enormousness.

An adjective derived from zillion is zillionth. The other adjectives are similarly derived. An adjective is a part of speech which modifies a noun, usually describing it or making its meaning more specific. ...

Since these are undefined numbers used in a colloquial context, they are not considered to have mathematical validity. (Some names coined to represent indefinite large numbers happen to have mathematical validity, because they are not new coinages at all but are in fact well-defined but non-standard names for large numbers. For example: Although "gagillion" is often used as the name of an indefinite large number, it is in fact the name of the number on the extended short scale.) // Long scale is the English translation of the French term échelle longue, which designates a system of numeric names in which the word billion means a million millions. ...

Each of these numbers is by no means considerably larger or smaller than any of the other ambiguous numbers but can be conceived of as such, due to personal preference. Various authors and other persons have set their own definitions as to amount and order of fictional and ambiguous numbers, often related to their experiences with juvenile schoolchildren and their offered explanations.

In times past, product promoters used a similar expression, "A thousand-and-one uses", though, obviously, not implying that there is no 1,002nd use.

Example use

• From the television series Futurama, episode 1x06, "A Fishful of Dollars," where Fry is bidding for the last known can of anchovies in existence:

Fry: "One jillion dollars!" [the crowd gasps]

Auctioneer: "Sir, that's not a number." [the crowd gasps again]

• Musician Stevie Wonder uses the term "zillion" in the title of his popular song "Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away".
• In the movie Monkey Business (1952), Cary Grant, returned to childhood by an elixir of youth, is asked a price for his formula and replies "A zillion dollars! A million trillion!"
• Children's entertainer and TV presenter Timmy Mallett frequently used the word "squillion" to describe large numbers of things on his Saturday morning show Wacaday.
• A popular joke focuses on a World Leader being told that a multi-national military force had suffered three Brazilian casualties. The leader is described as very disconcerted over such a huge loss of life — Presidential Briefing rec.humor.funny
• In one episode of The Simpsons^{[citation needed]}, Homer is offered a kajillion dollars, but he wants more.

Homer: "Two kajillion!"

Marge: "Homer!"

Homer: (to Marge) "But we'll lose the first kajillion to taxes."

• In the novel Life, the Universe and Everything, two grillion was used to describe the number of casualties in the war against the Krikkiters that lasted two thousand years.
• In the television series Friends, episode 124,

Joey: Hey, Chan, can you help me out here? I promise I'll pay you back.

Chandler: Oh, yeah, right, OK... including the waffles last week, you now owe me... 17 jillion dollars.

• In Ludacris's Song "Number One Spot":

Brush my shoulder and I pop my colla

Cause I'm worth a million gazillion fafillion dollas

• There was also a children's magazine called Zillions, which was published by Consumer Reports. [1]
• Zillion is also a New Zealand online auction site [2] which won the "Best New Site" at the 2006 NetGuide Web Awards [3].
• In the Calvin and Hobbes comics, originally published in newspapers on January 18th, 1995, also in There's Treasure Everywhere on page 138, Calvin asks Susie what 7 + 6 is. Susie tells him three hundred billion gazillion. Sarcastically, Calvin thanks her for the big help. Susie tells him that is a three, followed by 85 zeroes. Calvin writes it down, saying he knew that.[4]