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long scale

n. A system of numeric names in which every new term greater than million is 1,000,000 times the previous term. (i.e., a billion is a million million.)

Usage examples of "long scale".

In the long scale of bilious fevers, graduated by many shades, this is probably the last and most mortal term.

Then Byron's heart jumped, as the pings of the Jap destroyer shifted to long scale: p-i-i-i-ng!

Pope because she could not convince herself that games were important in the long scale of human values.

Perhaps the Buyur seeded each isle with different genetic stock as part of a very long scale experiment.