-illion

  1. Suffix.  Combined with Latin prefixes for names of integers in order to form names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000. Thus we have the names billion, trillion, etc.
  2. Suffix.  Added to various nonsense syllables to indicate an arbitrarily very large number.

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