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NOUN (3)

1. a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole);
- Example: "there were millions of flies"
[syn: million, billion, trillion, zillion, jillion, gazillion]

2. the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros;
- Example: "in England they call a quintillion a trillion"
[syn: trillion, one million million million]

3. the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros;
- Example: "in England they call a trillion a billion"
[syn: trillion, one million million, 1000000000000]

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. one quintillion in Great Britain;

2. one million million in the United States;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Trillion \Tril"lion\, n. [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.
   [1913 Webster]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (17 December 2009):

trillion

    In Britain, France, and Germany, 10^18 or a
   million cubed.

   In the USA and Canada, 10^12.

   [Elsewhere?]

   (1996-10-03)