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UK
/tɹˈɪliən/
]
[ US /ˈtɹɪɫjən/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹɪɫjən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- one million million in the United States
- one quintillion in Great Britain
NOUN
-
a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)
there were millions of flies -
the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros
in England they call a quintillion a trillion -
the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros
in England they call a trillion a billion
How To Use trillion In A Sentence
- Thundat and his colleagues demonstrate that they could detect very small amounts of adsorbed explosives -- with a limit of 600 picograms (a picogram is a trillionth of a gram). Undefined
- Tax cuts will leave more in people 's pockets to spend and $1 trillion of infrastructure investment will reinforce demand for labour for a decade. Times, Sunday Times
- Investors 'paper losses on U.S. stocks now total $8.4 trillion since the market peak one year ago, based on the value of the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 index, which includes almost all U. S.-based companies. Wild Day Caps Worst Week Ever for Stocks
- However, it said the 7,980 small-to-medium sized wide-body deliveries expected during that window would be worth $2.3 trillion. Times, Sunday Times
- How has the UK moved from being a nation that held up thrift as a virtue and considered debt a vice, to owing a trillion pounds on mortgages, credit cards and other loans?
- Essentially, the more than $1 trillion that we have spent on these two wars thus far is money that we have borrowed principally from the Chinese, the Japanese and countries out in the Persian Gulf. Op-Ed: Burdens Of War Unevenly Shared In U.S.
- Based on data submitted so far, Mr. Dongarra said, the Sunway machine has "credible" sustained performance of about 795 teraflops--or trillion floating-point operations per second, a measure of scientific calculations based on standard tests. China Supercomputer Uses Homegrown Chips
- Spread out over 7 years since we invaded, that works out to be about $100.57 billion PER YEAR out of an average annual federal budget of roughly $3.2 - $3.4 TRILLION ($3200 billion - $3400 billion) or in other words ... a whopping 2. 9% of every federal dollar spent over the last 7 years. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
- Hynix's debt is estimated to reach 9 trillion South Korean won ( 7.5 billion US dollars ).
- Then you achieve consensus that the illegal traffic in marijuana, cocaine and heroin, principally, creates its own trillion-dollar economy.
