Hypertext Webster Gateway: "billion"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Milliard \Mil`liard"\, n. [F., from mille, mil, thousand, L.
mille.]
A thousand millions; -- called also {billion}. See {Billion}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
billion
adj : (U.S.) denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand
million items or units; (Britain) denoting a quantity
consisting of one million million items or units [syn:
{a billion}]
n 1: (in Britain) the number that is represented as a one
followed by 12 zeros [syn: {one million million}, {1000000000000}]
2: (in the United States) the number that is represented as a
one followed by 9 zeros [syn: {one thousand million}, {1000000000}]
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