[
UK
/mˈɪliən/
]
[ US /ˈmɪɫjən/ ]
[ US /ˈmɪɫjən/ ]
NOUN
- the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
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a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)
there were millions of flies
ADJECTIVE
- (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units
How To Use million In A Sentence
- A few billion of that new economic rescue plan will go to weatherize one million homes a year.
- The total sales of the company didn't amount to more than a few million dollars.
- Our interneuronal connections in our brain, for example, process information at chemical signaling speeds of a few hundred feet per second, compared to a billion feet per second for electronics - electronics is a million times faster.
- According to the EPA, fish at the top of the aquatic food chain bioaccumulate methylmercury to a level approximately 1 million to 10 million times greater than dissolved concentrations found in surrounding waters. Field and Stream Report: The Truth about Mercury and the Fish You Eat
- You know, I always joked I had a million acquaintances and only a couple of close friends.
- They have kept it alive in the past and continue to make it plausible for millions of people today.
- We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. Thomas A. Edison
- They estimate the cost of repairing the damaged roads at £1 million.
- This platform of existence, many millions of years old, continues today with the gorillas and chimpanzees. Times, Sunday Times
- Net interest income dropped to $256.4 million, primarily due to the low market-interest rates that resulted in lower yields on mortgage-related interest-earning assets as customers refinanced to lower mortgage rates and new loans and asset purchases were at the current low market interest rates. Hudson City Bancorp Swings to Loss