yottasecond
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An SI unit of time equal to 10²⁴ seconds. Symbol: Ys. (= quadrillions of years, a hypothetical time span that is meaningless except in speculative contexts such as theoretical physics, philosophy, religion, and humorous hyperbole)
Example Sentences
- "Holonyms: ronnasecond < quettasecond"
- "Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond"
- "Trades Descriptions Act... "always on" presumably means 100.00 % uptime for the rest of infinity with nary a yottasecond's downtime."
- "Basically, I want yottaseconds and yoctoyears calculated with the same datatype for normal time."
- "12.7 furlongs per fortnight in parsecs per yottasecond"
Etymology
From yotta- + second.
Inflected Forms
Frequently Paired Words
mul:Ys