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Bazillion is not a name for any actual number, but is, instead, a slang term of exaggeration for an unspecified large number. A bazillion is presumably even greater than a zillion, which is itself also an unspecified large number.

The English language has a number of words for indefinite and fictitious numbers - inexact terms of indefinite size, used for comic effect, for exaggeration, as placeholder names, when the amount is unguessably large, or when precision is unnecessary or undesirable. One technical term for such words is "non-numerical vague quantifier".

Other similar terms for an unspecified large number include jillion, gajillion, gadzillion, and gazillion. These indefinite "numbers" have no order to them, except that it is understood that a number with a prefix is greater than one without a prefix. Thus, a bazillion is understood to be some amount even greater than the indefinite zillion.

By contrast, umpteen is a term for an amount of something that is not quite so unimaginably large, but for which the exact value is still not of great importance in some current conversation.

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