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Webster 1913 Edition

Trillion

Tril′lion

,
Noun.
[F.
trillion
, formed from the pref.
tri-
in imitation of
million
a million. Cf.
Billion
.]
According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the third power, or the number represented by a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed. See the Note under
Numeration
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Trillion

TRILLION

,
Noun.
tril'yun. [a word formed arbitrarily of three, or Gr. million.] The product of a million multiplied by a million, and that product multiplied by a million; or the product of the square of a million multiplied by a million. Thus 1,000,000 x 1,000,000=1,000,000,000,000, and this product multiplied by a million= 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Definition 2024

Trillion

Trillion

See also: trillion

German

Numeral

Trillion f (plural: Trillionen)

  1. quintillion (1018)
    • 2010, Der Spiegel, issue 29/2010, page 49:
      Rund eine Million beschriebene Insektenarten leben auf der Erde, Fachleute schätzen die Gesamtzahl aller Insekten auf eine Trillion, das ist eine 1 mit 18 Nullen.
      Approximately one million documented insect species live on Earth, experts estimate the total number of all insects at one quintillion, that is a 1 with 18 zeros.

Coordinate terms

trillion

trillion

See also: Trillion

English

Numeral

trillion

  1. (US, modern Britain, Australia, short scale) A million million: 1 followed by twelve zeros, 1012.
  2. (dated Britain, Australia, long scale) A million million million: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 1018.
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Translations

Etymology 2

Coined by Harvey Pollack, because of the way the numbers read across a basketball box score

Noun

trillion ‎(plural trillions)

  1. (basketball, slang) A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats.

French

Etymology

From tri- ‎(“three”) +‎ -illion, from million; i.e. a million million million.

Coined by Jehan Adam in 1475 as trimillion. Rendered as tryllion by Nicolas Chuquet in 1484, in his article “Triparty en la science des nombres”.

Numeral

trillion

  1. 1018; a long scale trillion; a short scale quintillion.

Usage notes

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Descendants

Middle French

Noun

trillion m (plural trillions)

  1. trillion, 1018
    • 1520, Étienne de La Roche, L'arismethique novellement composee, page 6
      ung trillion vault mille milliers de billions
      a trillion is equivalent to a thousand thousands of billions

Tatar

Numeral

trillion ‎(Cyrillic spelling триллион)

  1. (cardinal) trillion (1012)

Declension

Etymology

From French trillion, from tri- ‎(“three”) +‎ -illion.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɹɪljən/
  • Rhymes: -ɪljən

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