thousand million

English

English numbers ^(edit)

←  1,000,000 (106)	←  100,000,000 (108)	1,000,000,000 (109)	1012  → [a], [b]	1015  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: billion, milliard, thousand million     Ordinal: billionth, milliardth     Multiplier: billionfold, milliardfold     Metric collective prefix: giga-     Metric fractional prefix: nano-     Number of years: giga-annum, gigayear

Numeral

thousand million

1. (chiefly UK) Synonym of billion (sense 1)
   • 1901, Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature - Volume 64:

     Remark also that it is only for facility of counting that we have reckoned our universe as a thousand million suns; […]