Definitions for trillion
ˈtrɪl yəntril·lion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. million, billion, trillion, zillion, jillion, gazillionnoun

   a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)

   "there were millions of flies"

2. trillion, one million million millionnoun

   the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros

   "in England they call a quintillion a trillion"

3. trillion, one million million, 1000000000000adjective

   the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros

   "in England they call a trillion a billion"

4. trillionadjective

   one quintillion in Great Britain

5. trillionadjective

   one million million in the United States

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Trillionnoun

   A million of millions of millions; a million twice multiplied by a million.

   Etymology: A word invented by John Locke: trilion, Fr.

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1. trillion

   A trillion is a numerical value represented as 1 followed by 12 zeros (1,000,000,000,000) in the short scale used by most English-speaking countries. It can also refer to a number represented as 1 followed by 18 zeros (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) in the long scale used in some Western European countries. It is often used in mathematics, finance, science, or when discussing large scales, such as the population or economy.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Trillionnoun

   according to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the third power, or the number represented by a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Trillion

   tril′yun, n. a million raised to the third power, or multiplied twice by itself: in France, a thousand multiplied by itself three times, a million million.—adj. Trill′ionth. [Fr.,—L. tres, three, Low L. millio, a million.]

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1. • Large Indefinite Quantity
   • Large Integer

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of trillion in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of trillion in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of trillion in a Sentence

1. Mark Cabana:

   The fundamental issue is there are just too many darn Treasuries out there, both parties are to blame. The $ 1 trillion deficit will keep this an issue.

2. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg:

   There is more than a trillion posts, which some of the search engineers on the team like to remind me, is bigger than any Web search corpus out there.

3. Laurence Boone:

   The G20 countries have spent $10 trillion supporting people and their economies since the beginning of the pandemic. It would only take $50 billion to ensure vaccination worldwide, i’m just saying.

4. David King:

   We are talking about the world's biggest (new) market, it puts laptops into the shade. This (renewable energy) market is going to be by 2020 between $2ans $3 trillion a year.

5. Ian Bremmer:

   In fact, the value that producers of oil, gas, metals, minerals and other commodities have lost just in the past year comes to about $2 trillion, the size of India's entire economy, china by itself accounted for about 17 percent of the world's overall GDP in 2014, but its demand for imports has already fallen 14.6 percent over the first seven months of 2015.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=trillion
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=trillion
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trillion
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=trillion
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=trillion