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Trillion   /trˈɪljən/   Listen
Trillion

noun
1.
A very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole).  Synonyms: billion, gazillion, jillion, million, zillion.
2.
The number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros.  Synonym: one million million million.
3.
The number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros.  Synonyms: 1000000000000, one million million.
adjective
1.
One quintillion in Great Britain.
2.
One million million in the United States.



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"Trillion" Quotes from Famous Books



... first time this story has been printed. We were offered four trillion dollars in bribes to hold it up; our lives were threatened and we were shot at with death ...
— Mars Confidential • Jack Lait
... think for a minute how many particles there are, say in a cubit foot of sand—about one thousand million particles. Think of that! In eight thousand years, if the inhabitants of earth increased one trillion a century, three cubic yards of sand would still contain more particles than there would be people on the whole globe. Yet there you got the promise of the Lord in black and white. Now how was Abraham to manage to ...
— The Lions of the Lord - A Tale of the Old West • Harry Leon Wilson
... - dollar figure: 2.4 trillion rubles (1997); note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could ...
— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... know as colour is the vibration frequency of etheric waves striking on the retina of the eye, between certain definite limits—759 trillions of blows from the maximum, 436 trillions from the minimum—these waves give rise in us to the sensation which the brain translates into colour. (Why the 436 trillion blows at one end of a nerve become 'Red' at the other end we do not know; we chronicle the fact but cannot explain it.) But our capacity to respond to the vibration cannot limit the vibrational capacity of the ether; to us the higher and lower rates of vibration do not exist, but if our sense ...
— Annie Besant - An Autobiography • Annie Besant


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