trillion

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8
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11
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8
Pronunciation
/ˈtɹɪljən/
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/ˈtɹɪljən/ · /ˈtɹɪ(l)jən/

Definition of trillion

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

num

  1. (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

  1. (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.”
  2. (Australia, British, dated)Either of two large amounts:
  3. (colloquial, excessive)An unspecified very large number.
    “Near-synonyms: gazillion; see also Thesaurus:zillion”
    “There were trillions of people at the concert.”

noun

  1. (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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