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trillion(dictionary)

trillion (oh)



[Date: 1600-1700; Language: French; Origin: tri- 'three' + -illion (as in million)]
the number 1,000,000,000,000
::In a short time the number of cells is more than a trillion.
two/three/four etc trillion
::$5.3 trillion
::Japan's exports were worth $43 trillion last year.
trillions of pounds/dollars etc
::the trillions of dollars in the bond markets
informal an extremely large number of people or things
a trillion
::a shirt with a trillion holes in it
trillions of
::We've made this mistake trillions of times before.
BrE old use the number 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
-- trillionth adj
-- trillionth n [C]