billion

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sayı a thousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,000²): 1 followed by nine zeros, 10⁹.

   “At the last assessment it [the national debt] amounts to seven billion pounds (£7,000,000,000).”

2. sayı A million (times a) million (logic: 1,000,000²): a 1 followed by twelve zeros (10¹²); a thousand milliard.

   “n = 1,000,000,000,000, that is, = a billion, or the square of a million”

3. sayı An unspecified very large number.

   “There were billions of people at the concert.”