trillion
trillion
Definition
tril·lion (tril′yen)
noun
- ☆ the number represented by 1 followed by 12 zeros
- Brit. the number represented by 1 followed by 18 zeros
- an indefinite but very large number: a hyperbolic use
Etymology: Fr < tri-, tri- + (mi)llion
adjective
amounting to one trillion in number
trillion
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- dollar: In the United States trillions of dollars have to be put back into pension funds, which means profits are effectively negative.
- billion: Part 1 Trillions of Billions of content pages make up the wide world of Internet.
- pound: It proposes a small tax on the trillions of pounds of currency transfers made very year.
- cell: The body, for example, is made up of trillions of cells.
- year: The whole project will likely take trillions of years to complete.
- mile: A star is essentially a ball of boiling gas trillions of miles away, so ownership is hardly a viable option anyway!
Converse of object
- spend: You spent trillions of dollars - all for no real end.
- have: That Iraq has trillions of dollars worth of oil reserves is not in question.
- get: There are a generous number of lives and you get trillions of goes at each bit.
- take: The whole project will likely take trillions of years to complete.
Adjective modifier
- worth: The National Science Foundation in the United States has estimated nanotechnology to be worth trillions of dollars in the next ten to fifteen years.
- countless: In that previous universe, there are countless trillions of what can be called type 1 star systems.
Modifies a noun
- speaker: Which means that the trillions speakers schedule test drives for progressive direct.
- year: But in 1.2 Trillion years only some of the implant pattern and mock up had shifted.
- pound: Does " one TRILLION pounds " not bring to mind Dr. Evil for anybody else here?
Noun used with modifier
- spending: But we can go fight the worlds war in Iraq spending trillions of our hard earned dollars... We won ' t go there.
trillion Quotes
Let there pass A minute, ten, ten trillion; but the blaze Is infinite, eternal: this is death. To die and know it. This is the Black Widow, death.
Browse dictionary entries near trillion
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- trim
- trim one's sails
- trim ship
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