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Billion

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Noun

1. 1000000000000, billion, one million million

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

2. billion, gazillion, jillion, million, trillion, zillion

a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)

Example Sentences:
'there were millions of flies'

3. 1000000000, billion, one thousand million

the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros

Adjective

4. billion

denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States

5. billion

denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Billion

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noun plural -lions or -lion
1. 
one thousand million: it is written as 1 000 000 000 or 109
2. 
(formerly, in Britain) one million million: it is written as 1 000 000 000 000 or 1012
3. (often plural)
any exceptionally large number
determiner
4. (preceded by a or a cardinal number)
a. 
amounting to a billion
it seems like a billion years ago
b. 
(as pronoun)
we have a billion here

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Billion

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noun
1. 
a thousand millions (1,000,000,000)
2.  British, Obsolete
trillion (a million millions)
adjective
3. 
amounting to one billion in number

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Billion

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n.
1. The cardinal number equal to 109.
2. Chiefly British The cardinal number equal to 1012.
3. An indefinitely large number.

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