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trillion Definition

tril·lion (trilyen)

noun

  1. ☆ the number represented by 1 followed by 12 zeros
  2. Brit. the number represented by 1 followed by 18 zeros
  3. 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.

—Lowell, RobertTraill Spence,Jr

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