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trillion
[ tril-yuhn ]
noun
- a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 12 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 18 zeros.
adjective
- amounting to one trillion in number.
trillion
/ ˈ³Ù°ùɪ±ôÂáÉ™²Ô /
noun
- the number represented as one followed by twelve zeros (10 12); a million million
- (formerly, in Britain) the number represented as one followed by eighteen zeros (10 18); a million million million
- often plural an exceptionally large but unspecified number
determiner
- preceded bya or a numeral
- amounting to a trillion
a trillion stars
- ( as pronoun )
there are three trillion
Derived Forms
- ˈ³Ù°ù¾±±ô±ô¾±´Ç²Ô³Ù³ó, nounadjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³Ù°ù¾±±ôl¾±´Ç²Ô³Ù³ó noun adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of trillion1
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Example Sentences
Jack says going up against a company like Meta, which is worth more than a trillion dollars, doesn't feel like a fight he can take on alone.
The 500-plus working data cables in the world carry not only our emails and phone calls but also the majority of the world’s financial transactions, estimated to be worth $10 trillion a day.
We’re told that “Liberation Day†tariffs will raise $6 trillion in federal revenue over the next decade, plus another trillion from automobile tariffs.
To justify this sweeping reallocation, the administration invoked a new economic estimate: $2.7 trillion in annual costs from illicit fentanyl.
That’s because while President Trump had us rapt with his bold promises, he instructed congressional Republicans to mortgage future generations to pay for trillions of dollars in tax cuts for America’s wealthiest families.
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