trillion
See also: Trillion
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French trillion, from tri- (“three”) + -illion.
Numeral
trillion (plural trillions)
- (US, modern British, Australia, short scale) A million million: 1 followed by twelve zeros, 1012.
- (dated British, Australia, long scale) A million million million: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 1018.
Translations
a million million, 1012
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a million million million, 1018
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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
Numeral
trillion
- 1018; a long scale trillion; a short scale quintillion.
Usage notes
Related terms
- billion, coined at same time
Descendants
- → Catalan: trilió
Further reading
- “trillion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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
Tatar
Numeral
trillion (Cyrillic spelling триллион)
- trillion (1012)
Declension
Declension of trillion
nominative | trillion |
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genitive | trillionnıñ |
dative | trillionga |
accusative | trillionnı |
locative | trillionda |
ablative | trillionnan |
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