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See more synonyms for trillion on Thesaurus.com noun, plural tril·lions, (as after a numeral ) tril·lion. a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 12 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 18 zeros. Show More
amounting to one trillion in number. Show More
Origin of trillion 1680–90; <
French, equivalent to
tr(i )-
tri- + (
m)illion million Related forms tril·lionth , noun, adjective Dictionary.com Unabridged
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cargo Examples from the Web for trillion Contemporary Examples of trillion World GDP (including North Pole toyshop gross output) is $84.97 trillion .
There are about 80 million Americans between the ages of 18-34 and next year they are expected to spend $2.45 trillion .
Among other things, the bill appropriates $1.1 trillion in funding—including over $550 billion for the Department of Defense.
In 2012, the top 20 percent made $13.5 trillion in income; the entire bottom 80% made $1 trillion .
Illegal immigrants have already paid about $1 trillion into social security.
Historical Examples of trillion Its distance is 64 trillion kilometers (391⁄2 trillion miles).
Its distance is 69 trillion kilometers (421⁄2 trillion miles).
This has happened in the case of the words million, billion, trillion , &c.
Among the trillion mysteries of the cosmos, the most phenomenal is light.
Not one of these stars is within a trillion miles of any other.
British Dictionary definitions for trillion the number represented as one followed by twelve zeros (10 12 ); a million million (formerly, in Britain) the number represented as one followed by eighteen zeros (10 18 ); a million million million (often plural) an exceptionally large but unspecified number Show More
(preceded by a or a numeral ) amounting to a trillion a trillion stars (as pronoun ) there are three trillion Show More
Derived Forms trillionth , noun , adjective Word Origin for trillion C17: from French, on the model of million
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Word Origin and History for trillion 1680s, from French trillion (late 15c.), from tri- (see tri- ) + (m)illion . Cf. billion . In the U.S., the fourth power of a thousand (one thousand billion, 1 followed by 12 zeroes); in Great Britain, the third power of a million (one million billion, 1 followed by 18 zeroes), which is the original sense.
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