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kajillion
English
Etymology
See +? -illion
Pronunciation
Noun
kajillion (plural kajillions)
- (slang, hyperbolic) An unspecified large number (of).
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:zillion.
kajillion From the web:
trillion
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: tr?l'y?n, IPA(key): /?t??lj?n/
- Rhymes: -?lj?n
Etymology 1
From French trillion, from tri- (“three”) +? -illion.
Numeral
trillion (plural trillions)
- (US, modern Britain, Australia, short scale) A million million: 1 followed by twelve zeros, 1012.
- (dated Britain, Australia, long scale) A million million million: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 1018.
Synonyms
- (1012): a long scale billion
- (1018): a short scale quintillion
Translations
See also
- (short scale) Previous: billion. Next: quadrillion
- (long scale) Previous: billiard. Next: trilliard
- (SI prefix): tera-
Etymology 2
Coined by Harvey Pollack, because of the way the numbers read across a basketball box score
Noun
trillion (plural trillions)
- (basketball, slang) A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats.
French
Etymology
From tri- (“three”) +? -illion, from million; i.e. a million million million.
Coined by Jehan Adam in 1475 as trimillion.Rendered as tryllion by Nicolas Chuquet in 1484, in his article “Triparty en la science des nombres”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?i.lj??/
Numeral
trillion
- 1018; a long scale trillion; a short scale quintillion.
Usage notes
- Previous: billiard, 1015
- Next: trilliard, 1021
Related terms
- billion, coined at same time
Descendants
- ? Catalan: trilió
Further reading
- “trillion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Noun
trillion m (plural trillions)
- trillion, 1018
- 1520, Étienne de La Roche, L'arismethique novellement composee, page 6
- ung trillion vault mille milliers de billions
- a trillion is equivalent to a thousand thousands of billions
- ung trillion vault mille milliers de billions
- 1520, Étienne de La Roche, L'arismethique novellement composee, page 6
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Numeral
trillion (Cyrillic spelling ????????)
- trillion (1012)
Declension
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