English Explanatory Dictionary

trillion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

num
  1. Either of two large amounts:
  2. A million (times a) million: 1 followed by twelve zeros, 10¹².
  3. A million (times a) million (times a) million: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸.
  4. An unspecified very large number.
noun
  1. A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats.

Pronunciation

trĭl'yən /ˈtɹɪljən/ en-us-trillion.ogg en-au-trillion.ogg /ˈtɹɪ(l)jən/

Word forms

trillion trillions

Etymology

Borrowed from French trillion, from French tri- (“three”) + -illion, equivalent to tri- + -illion. The noun was coined by American basketball player Harvey Pollack, because of the way the numbers read across a basketball box score.

Synonyms

billion[long scale]]> quintillion gazillion

Related words

Previous: billion. Next: quadrillion Previous: billiard. Next: trilliard tera-

Translations

Afrikaans: biljoen Arabic: بِلْيُون Arabic: تِرِيلِيُون Arabic: تِرِيلِْيُون Armenian: տրիլիոն Armenian: երկիլիոն Armenian: եռիլիոն Belarusian: трыльён Bulgarian: трилио́н Burmese: ထရီလီယံ Catalan: bilió Catalan: trilió Chinese Mandarin: 萬億 /万亿 Chinese Mandarin: 兆 Czech: bilión Czech: trilión Dutch: biljoen Dutch: triljoen Esperanto: biliono Esperanto: duiliono Esperanto: triiliono Estonian: biljon Estonian: triljon Faroese: billión Faroese: trillión Finnish: biljoona Finnish: triljoona French: billion French: mille milliards French: trillion Georgian: ტრილიონი German: Billion German: Trillion Greek: τρισεκατομμύριο Greenlandic: billioni Hindi: महापद्म Hungarian: billió Indonesian: triliun Indonesian: biliun Italian: bilione Italian: trilione Japanese: 兆 Javanese: kirna Khmer: ពាន់ពាន់លាន Khmer: លានលាន Korean: 조 Korean: 만억 Malay: trilion Maltese: biljun Maltese: triljun Manchu: ᠰᠠᠵᠠ Manchu: ᡨᠠᠩᡤᡡ ᠵᡳᡵᡠᠨ Navajo: chiyóón Persian: تریلیون Polish: bilion Polish: trylion Portuguese: bilião Portuguese: trilhão Portuguese: trilião Portuguese: quintilhão Romanian: bilion Romanian: trilion Russian: триллио́н Russian: квинтиллио́н Sanskrit: महापद्म Slovak: bilión Slovak: trilión Spanish: billón Spanish: trillón Swahili: trilioni
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