different between googol vs googly

English

Etymology

Coined by Milton Sirotta in 1920 who was then the young nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner who had asked Milton to think of a name for the hypothetical number of 10 to the 100th power. The word was first published in the book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??u?.??l/, /??u?.??l/
• (General American) enPR: go?o?g?l, go?o?g?l, IPA^(key): /??u.??l/, /??u.??l/
• Rhymes: -u???l
• Homophones: google, Google

Numeral

googol (plural googols)

1. The number ${\displaystyle 10^{100}}$, or ten to the power of a hundred. [from 1920.]
   • 1979, Steven Pinker, "Formal models of language learning", Language, Cognition, and Human Nature:

     For example, in considering all the finite state grammars that use seven terminal symbols and seven auxiliary symbols (states), [...] he must test over a googol (10^100) candidates.

   • 1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos, chapter IX

     If the universe were packed solid with neutrons, say, so there was no empty space anywhere, there would still only be about 10¹²⁸ particles in it, quite a bit more than a googol but trivially small compared to a googolplex.

Derived terms

• Google
• googolplex
• googolplexplex
• googolplexth
• googolth
• googillion

Translations

References

• “googol” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “googol”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Malay

Alternative forms

• ??????

Etymology

Borrowed from English googol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?ol/
• Rhymes: -o?ol, -?ol, -ol

Numeral

googol

1. googol

Synonyms

• puluh duotrigintilion / ????? ????????????????

Portuguese

Numeral

googol m (plural googols)

1. googol (1 followed by 100 zeros)

English

Pronunciation

• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?????li/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??u?li/

Etymology 1

The etymology is uncertain but it is linked to Bernard Bosanquet, who developed such a delivery around 1900. It may be important that the word was first reported during one of his New Zealand matches.

Noun

googly (plural googlies)

1. (cricket) A ball, bowled by a leg-break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery.
   • 1904, P. F. Warner, How We Recovered the Ashes, quoted in Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter XI, section 4, page 248:

     Bosanquet can bowl as badly as anyone in the world; but when he gets a length, those slow googlies, as the Australian players call them, are apt to paralyse the greatest players.

Synonyms

• bosie or bosey
• wrong ’un

Derived terms

• bowl a googly
• google

See also

• chinaman
• cutter
• doosra
• full toss
• inswing
• leg break
• off-break
• outswing
• screwball grip
• seamer
• yorker

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Perhaps from goo-goo (“amorous”), or directly from goggle. Attested from 1901.

Adjective

googly (comparative googlier, superlative googliest)

1. (of the eyes) Bulging.
2. (usually of eyes, sometimes of persons) Appearing to be amorous, flirtatious.

See also

• googly-eyed
• googly eye

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “googly”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• “googly, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000
• “googly, adj.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Anagrams

• Göygöl