Billion
['bɪljən]
Definition
(noun.) the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros.
(noun.) the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequently seen.
(adj.) denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States .
(adj.) denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain .
Typist: Veronica--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration.
Edited by Emily
Definition
n. a million or thousand thousand of millions (1 0 0 0 000); or according to the French method of numeration one thousand millions (1 0 0 000).
Editor: Moore
Examples
- Licensees under Edison patents in this country alone produce upward of 60,000,000 feet of films annually, containing more than a billion and a half separate photographs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Even the log of wood which lies heavy and motionless on our woodpile is made up of countless billions of molecules each in rapid incessant motion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Countless billions died before the first black man broke through his prison walls into the light of day. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
Edited by Jacqueline