Billion

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Milliard \Mil`liard"\ (F. m[-e]l`y[.a]r"; E.
     m[i^]l"l[i^]*[aum]rd), n. [F., from mille, mil, thousand, L.
     mille.]
     A thousand millions; -- usually called {billion} in the
     United States. See {Billion}.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Billion \Bil"lion\, n. [F. billion, arbitrarily formed fr. L.
     bis twice, in imitation of million a million. See {Million}.]
     According to the French and American method of numeration, a
     thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English
     method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See
     {Numeration}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  billion
       adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items
              or units in the United States [syn: {a billion}]
       2: denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items
          or units in Great Britain [syn: {a billion}]
       n 1: the number that is represented as a one followed by 12
            zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the
            United States is frequently seen [syn: {one million
            million}, {1000000000000}]
       2: the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros
          [syn: {one thousand million}, {1000000000}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "billion":
     a billion, a crore, a lakh, a million, a myriad, a nonillion,
     a quadrillion, a thousand, a zillion, astronomical number, googol,
     googolplex, infinitude, infinity, jillion, large number, milliard,
     trillion, zillion