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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From French trillion, from tri- (“three”) + -illion.
Numeral[edit]
trillion (plural trillions)
- (US, modern Britain, Australia, short scale) A million million: 1 followed by twelve zeros, 1012.
- 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3: From Ashes (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:
- Javik: Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. Their silence is your answer.
- (dated Britain, Australia, long scale) A million million million: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 1018.
Synonyms[edit]
- (1012): a long scale billion
- (1018): a short scale quintillion
Descendants[edit]
- → Welsh: triliwn
Translations[edit]
a million million, 1012 — See also translations at billion
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a million million million, 1018 — See also translations at quintillion
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See also[edit]
- (short scale) Previous: billion. Next: quadrillion
- (long scale) Previous: billiard. Next: trilliard
- (SI prefix): tera-
Etymology 2[edit]
Coined by Harvey Pollack, because of the way the numbers read across a basketball box score
Noun[edit]
trillion (plural trillions)
- (basketball, slang) A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats.
French[edit]
[a], [b], [c] ← 1012 | [a], [b], [c] ← 1015 | 1018 | 1021 → [a], [b], [c] | 1024 → |
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Cardinal (traditional spelling): un trillion, un milliard de milliards Cardinal (post-1990 spelling): un-trillion, un-milliard de milliards Ordinal: trillionième, milliardième de milliardième | ||||
French Wikipedia article on 1018 |
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Numeral[edit]
trillion m (plural trillions)
- quintillion (1018)
- (dated) trillion (1012)
Related terms[edit]
- billion, coined at same time
Descendants[edit]
- → Catalan: trilió
References[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “trillion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French[edit]
Noun[edit]
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
Tatar[edit]
Numeral[edit]
trillion (Cyrillic spelling триллион)
- trillion (1012)
Declension[edit]
Declension of trillion
nominative | trillion |
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genitive | trillionnıñ |
dative | trillionga |
accusative | trillionnı |
locative | trillionda |
ablative | trillionnan |
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