trillion
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Definition of trillion
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
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(Australia, British, US, modern)Either of two large amounts:
“Javik: Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. Their silence is your answer.”
“Data published by the Treasury Department showed that “total public debt outstanding” rose to $34.001 trillion on December 29.”
“As President Donald Trump prepares to order the dismantling of the Department of Education, the financial arm of the agency – which makes loans directly to borrowers and manages trillions of dollars in student debt – faces an uncertain future, with steep staff cuts and lack of communication exacerbating the uncertainty, according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former department employees.”
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num
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(Australia, British, US, modern)Either of two large amounts:
“Javik: Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. Their silence is your answer.”
“Data published by the Treasury Department showed that “total public debt outstanding” rose to $34.001 trillion on December 29.”
“As President Donald Trump prepares to order the dismantling of the Department of Education, the financial arm of the agency – which makes loans directly to borrowers and manages trillions of dollars in student debt – faces an uncertain future, with steep staff cuts and lack of communication exacerbating the uncertainty, according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former department employees.”
- (Australia, British, dated)Either of two large amounts:
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(colloquial, excessive)An unspecified very large number.
“Near-synonyms: gazillion; see also Thesaurus:zillion”
“There were trillions of people at the concert.”
noun
- (slang)A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from French trillion, from French tri- (“three”) + -illion, equivalent to tri- + -illion. The noun was coined by American basketball player Harvey Pollack, because of the way the numbers read across a basketball box score.
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