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Billion   /bˈɪljən/   Listen
Billion

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: 1000000000000, one million million.
2.
A very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole).  Synonyms: gazillion, jillion, million, trillion, zillion.
3.
The number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros.  Synonyms: 1000000000, one thousand million.
adjective
1.
Denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States.
2.
Denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain.



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... enterprises—putting one in terms of a percentage of the other. For example, if it be calculated that the profits of these enterprises in excess of the approved level be one hundred million dollars, and the total wages bill of the same enterprises two billion dollars, the amount of wage increase to be awarded should be stated as 5 per cent. That is, the wage increase to be awarded should total 5 per cent. ...
— The Settlement of Wage Disputes • Herbert Feis
... inapprehensible relation between all past and all future conditioned-being,—the tremendous question remains: What signifies the whole of apparitional existence to the Unconditioned? As flickers of sheet-lightning leave no record in the night, so in that Darkness a million billion trillion universes might come and go, and leave no trace ...
— The Romance of the Milky Way - And Other Studies & Stories • Lafcadio Hearn
... corporations produced by modern industrial conditions, it would be necessary to increase in like fashion the activity of the sovereign power which alone could control such corporations. As has been aptly said, the only way to meet a billion-dollar corporation is by invoking the protection of a hundred-billion-dollar government; in other words, of the National Government, for no State Government is strong enough both to do justice to corporations and to exact justice from them. Said Senator Davis in this admirable address, ...
— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt
... hours, at the rate we have mentioned, of one mile in a minute. This will give us a line one hundred and eighty miles long by one broad, and covering one hundred and eighty square miles. Now, allowing two pigeons to the square yard, we have one billion, one hundred and fifteen million, one hundred and thirty-six thousand pigeons in one flock. As every pigeon consumes fully half a pint of food a day, the quantity required to feed such a flock for one day must be eight million, seven hundred ...
— True Stories about Cats and Dogs • Eliza Lee Follen
... system, which was started in England 73 years ago, eliminates most of these waste expenses. The system has kept spreading at an astonishing rate; in Great Britain there are now 3 1/2 million members, and more than a billion of sales a year. Other European countries are full of these stores. Many of the retail stores have from twelve thousand to fifty thousand members; their sales run into the millions. They are federated in a wholesale agency which buys for them ...
— Three Acres and Liberty • Bolton Hall


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