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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:Long and short scalesWikipedia English numbers (edit)
 ←  1,000,000 (106) [a], [b] ←  100,000,000 (108) 1,000,000,000 (109) 1012  → [a], [b] 1015  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: billion, milliard, thousand million     Ordinal: billionth, milliardth, thousand-millionth     Multiplier: billionfold, milliardfold, thousand-millionfold     Metric collective prefix: giga-     Metric fractional prefix: nano-     Number of years: giga-annum, gigayear
English numbers (edit)
 ←  1,000,000 (106) [a], [b], [c] ←  1,000,000,000 (109) 1012 1015  → [a], [b] 1018  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: trillion, billion     Ordinal: trillionth, billionth     Multiplier: trillionfold, billionfold     Metric collective prefix: tera-     Metric fractional prefix: pico-

Etymology

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From French billion, equivalent to bi- (“two”) +‎ -illion.

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: bĭl'yən, IPA(key): /ˈbɪljən/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: bil‧lion
  • Rhymes: -ɪljən

Numeral

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billion (plural billions)

cardinal number
109 Previous: million
Next: trillion
cardinal number
1012 Previous: milliard
Next: billiard
  1. Either of two large amounts:
    1. (US, modern British & Australian, short scale) a thousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,0002): 1 followed by nine zeros, 109. Synonyms: milliard, thousand million
      • 1921 January 24, “National Finances”, in Devon and Exeter Gazette, page 5:At the last assessment it [the national debt] amounts to seven billion pounds (£7,000,000,000).
      • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎[4], volume 407, number 8837, page 74:In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
      • 2019 October, Dan Harvey, “HS2 costs rise as schedule slips”, in Modern Railways, page 9:However, despite the prospect of HS2 being curtailed and the revelation that the programme is late and billions over budget, for now, at least, work on the scheme appears to be business as usual
      • 2023 May 18, Reuters, “Chipmakers look to Japan as worries about China grow”, in CNN Business‎[5]:Micron said in a statement that it would bring extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology to Japan, becoming the first semiconductor company to do so, and expected to invest up to 500 billion yen ($3.6 billion) with support from the Japanese government.
      • 2023 October 30, Herbold et al., “A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays” (18617), in Scientific Reports, volume 13, page 1:The ChatGPT service which serves as Web front-end to GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 was the fastest-growing service in history to break the 100 million user milestone in January and had 1 billion visits by February 2023.
      • 2025 February 8, “COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF”, in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York‎[6], page 2:Plaintiff States also receive billions of dollars in funds every year directly from Treasury through BFS under federal grant programs.
    2. (dated, British & Australian, long scale) A million (times a) million (logic: 1,000,0002): a 1 followed by twelve zeros (1012); a thousand milliard. Synonym: trillion (short scale)
      • 1778, Francis Maseres, “A Method of Finding, by the Help of Sir Isaac Newton's Binomial Theorem, a Near Value of the very Slowly Converging Infinite Series [...]”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society‎[7], volume lxviii, number xli:n = 1,000,000,000,000, that is, = a billion, or the square of a million
      • 2000 November 8, Stephen Ladyman, “[Speech to the House of Commons]”, in Hansard‎[8]:There is a bill to be picked up for cleaning the former Soviet countries of £1 billion. By that I mean a British billion, because when I was little I was told that a billion was a million million and then the Americans said that it was a thousand million. Well, I am talking about a million million pounds worth of clean-up to be done.
  2. (colloquial, hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number. Near-synonyms: gazillion; see also Thesaurus:zillion There were billions of people at the concert.
abbreviations
  • B, b, B., b.
  • bil, bil.
  • bln, bln.
  • bn, bn.

Coordinate terms

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  • thousand
  • million
  • milliard
  • thousand million
  • trillion
  • quadrillion
  • quintillion
  • sextillion

Derived terms

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  • Barbillion
  • billionaire
  • billion-dollar grass
  • billion-dollar question
  • billion laughs
  • Boring Billion
  • centibillion
  • golden billion
  • megabillion
  • multi-billion
  • multibillion
  • multibillions
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  • trillion, coined at same time
  • zillion, coined after the series million, billion, trillion, quadrillion (modern slang)
  • gazillion, from same origin
  • -illion, from same origin

Descendants

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  • → Chichewa: biliyoni
  • → Hausa: biliyan
  • → Hawaiian: piliona
  • → Māori: piriona
  • → Niuean: piliona
  • → Samoan: piliona
  • → Shona: bhiriyoni
  • → Somali: bilyan
  • → Swahili: bilioni
  • → Tongan: piliona
  • → Welsh: biliwn
  • → Xhosa: ibhiliyoni
  • → Zulu: ibhiliyoni

Translations

[edit] a thousand million (1,000,000,000); a milliard
  • Afrikaans: miljard (af)
  • Albanian: miliardë, miliard (sq)
  • Arabic: مِلْيَار m (milyār)
  • Armenian: միլիարդ (hy) (miliard), միլիառ (hy) (miliaṙ), հազար միլիոն (hazar milion)
  • Azerbaijani: milyard
  • Basque: miliar, mila milioi
  • Belarusian: мілья́рд (be) m (milʹjárd)
  • Bengali: বিলিয়ন (bn) (biliẏon)
  • Breton: miliard (br)
  • Bulgarian: милиа́рд m (miliárd)
  • Burmese: ပကောဋိ (my) (pa.kau:ti.), ဘီလီယံ (bhiliyam)
  • Catalan: mil milió (usual), miliard (ca) m (rare), mil milions m
  • Cebuano: wakat, bilyon
  • Chichewa: biliyoni
  • Chinese: Cantonese: 十億 / 十亿 (sap6 jik1) Hokkien: 十億 / 十亿 (cha̍p ek) Mandarin: 十億 / 十亿 (zh) (shíyì)
  • Crimean Tatar: milliard
  • Czech: miliarda (cs) f
  • Danish: milliard (da) c
  • Dutch: miljard (nl) n
  • East Frisian Low German: miljâard f
  • Esperanto: miliardo (eo)
  • Estonian: miljard
  • Faroese: milliard f
  • Fijian: bilioni
  • Finnish: miljardi (fi)
  • French: milliard (fr) m, (obsolete) billion (fr) m, mille milliards (fr)
  • Frisian: North Frisian: Miljārd m or f (Sylt) West Frisian: miljard (fy) n
  • Galician: mil millóns (gl)
  • Georgian: მილიარდი (miliardi)
  • German: Milliarde (de) f
  • Greek: δισεκατομμύριο (el) n (disekatommýrio)
  • Hausa: biliyan
  • Hawaiian: piliona
  • Hebrew: מִילְיַארְד (he) (milyárd)
  • Hindi: अरब (hi) (arab), अर्बुद (hi) m (arbud), अब्ज (hi) m (abj)
  • Hungarian: milliárd (hu), ezermillió
  • Icelandic: milljarða
  • Ido: miliardo (io)
  • Indonesian: miliar (id)
  • Interlingua: milliardo
  • Irish: billiún
  • Italian: miliardo (it)
  • Japanese: 十億 (ja) (じゅうおく, jūoku)
  • Javanese: ꦒꦸꦭ꧀ꦩ (gulma)
  • Kalmyk: тербум (terbum)
  • Kazakh: миллиард (kk) (milliard)
  • Khmer: រយកោដិ (rɔɔy kaot), ពាន់លាន (pŏən liən)
  • Korean: 십억(十億) (ko) (sibeok)
  • Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: milyar (ku)
  • Kyrgyz: миллиард (milliard), чоку (ky) (coku)
  • Ladino: milyarda
  • Lao: ຕື້ (tư̄), ພັນລ້ານ (phan lān)
  • Latin: milliardum (la)
  • Latvian: miljards m
  • Lithuanian: milijardas (lt) m
  • Luxembourgish: Milliard
  • Macedonian: милија́рда f (milijárda)
  • Malay: seribu juta, bilion (ms), ribu juta, miliar (ms)
  • Malayalam: നൂറ് കോടി (nūṟŭ kōṭi), ശതകോടി (ml) (śatakōṭi), അറബ് (ml) (aṟabŭ), ബില്ല്യൺ (ml) (billyaṇ)
  • Maltese: biljun, miljard m
  • Manchu: ᠵᡠᠸᠠᠨᠪᡠᠨᠠᡳ (juwan bunai)
  • Māori: piriona
  • Marathi: अब्ज (mr) (abja)
  • Mongolian: тэрбум (mn) (terbum)
  • Navajo: binyóón
  • Nepali: अरब१ (ne) (araba1), अर्बुद (ne) (arbud)
  • Niuean: piliona
  • Norwegian: Bokmål: milliard (no) Nynorsk: milliard (nn)
  • Occitan: miliard (oc)
  • Old Church Slavonic: тьма тьмъ (tĭma tĭmŭ)
  • Persian: میلیارد (fa) (milyârd), (seldom) بیلیون (fa) (bilyun)
  • Polish: miliard (pl) m
  • Portuguese: mil milhões (Angola, Portugal), bilhão (pt) m (Brazil)
  • Quechua: lluna
  • Romanian: miliard (ro) n
  • Romansch: milliarda f, milliard m
  • Russian: миллиа́рд (ru) m (milliárd), (seldom) биллио́н (ru) m (billión)
  • Samoan: piliona
  • Sanskrit: अब्ज (sa) (abja), अर्बुद (sa) (arbuda)
  • Scottish Gaelic: billean
  • Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: милијарда f Latin: milijarda (sh) f
  • Shona: bhiriyoni
  • Sicilian: miliardu m
  • Slovak: miliarda (sk) f
  • Slovene: milijarda (sl) f
  • Somali: bilyan
  • Spanish: millardo (es) m, mil millones m pl
  • Sundanese: milyar
  • Swahili: bilioni (sw)
  • Swedish: miljard (sv) c
  • Tagalog: libong-angaw, bilyon, gatos (tl), sanggatos
  • Tajik: миллиард (milliard)
  • Tamil: நூறுகோடி (ta) (nūṟukōṭi)
  • Tatar: миллиард (tt) (milliyard)
  • Thai: พันล้าน (th) (pan-láan)
  • Tongan: piliona
  • Turkish: milyar (tr)
  • Turkmen: milliard
  • Ukrainian: мілья́рд (uk) m (milʹjárd)
  • Urdu: ارب (arab)
  • Uyghur: مىليارد (milyard)
  • Uzbek: milliard (uz)
  • Vietnamese: một tỉ, tỉ (vi), tỷ (vi)
  • Welsh: biliwn (cy)
  • Xhosa: ibhiliyoni
  • Yiddish: מיליאַרד m (milyard)
  • Yup'ik: tiissitsaaq miilicaaq
  • Zulu: ibhiliyoni class 7/8
a million million; 1,000,000,000,000 — see also trillion
  • Armenian: երկիլիոն (hy) (erkilion)
  • Basque: bilioi
  • Catalan: bilió (ca)
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 兆 (zh) (zhào), 萬億 / 万亿 (zh) (wànyì)
  • Czech: bilión (cs) m
  • Danish: billion (da) c
  • Dutch: biljoen (nl)
  • Esperanto: duiliono (eo)
  • Faroese: billión f
  • Finnish: biljoona (fi)
  • French: billion (fr)
  • German: Billion (de)
  • Greek: τρισεκατομμύριο (el) n (trisekatommýrio)
  • Italian: bilione (it) m
  • Japanese: 兆 (ja) (ちょう, chō)
  • Korean: 조 (ko) (jo)
  • Manchu: ᠰᠠᠵᠠ (saja)
  • Māori: piriona
  • Persian: تریلیون (fa) (trilyun)
  • Polish: bilion (pl)
  • Portuguese: bilião (pt) m (Angola, Portugal), trilhão (pt) m (Brazil)
  • Romanian: bilion (ro) n
  • Russian: триллио́н (ru) m (trillión)
  • Sanskrit: महापद्म (sa) (mahāpadma)
  • Sicilian: triliuni m
  • Slovak: bilión (sk) m
  • Spanish: billón (es) m
  • Swedish: biljon (sv) c
  • Turkish: trilyon (tr)
  • Urdu: مِلْیُن (milyun)
(plural) a very large number
  • Finnish: miljardi (fi) (usually in the partitive plural)
  • French: milliards (fr) m pl, millions (fr) m pl
  • Polish: bilion (pl) m
  • Portuguese: bilião (pt)
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  • Sinhalese: (please verify) බිලියනය (biliyanaya)

See also

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  • (short scale) Previous: million. Next trillion.
  • (long scale) Previous: milliard. Next billiard.
  • ISO prefix: giga-

Danish

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Noun

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billion

  1. 1012

Declension

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commongender singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative billion billionen billioner billionerne
genitive billions billionens billioners billionernes

French

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 ←  1,000,000 (106)  ←  1,000,000,000 (109) 1012 1015  → [a], [b] 1018  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: un billion, mille milliards     Ordinal: billionième, millième de milliardième
French Wikipedia article on 1012

Etymology

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From bi- (“two”) +‎ -illion; i.e., a million million.

Coined by Jehan Adam in 1475 as by-million.[1] [2] [3] Rendered as byllion by Nicolas Chuquet in 1484, in his article “Triparty en la science des nombres”.[4] [5]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bi.ljɔ̃/
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Numeral

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billion m (plural billions)

  1. trillion (1012) Synonym: mille milliards
  2. (dated) billion (109) Synonym: milliard
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  • trillion, coined at same time

Descendants

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  • → Catalan: bilió
  • → Portuguese: bilião, bilhão (informal in Portugal)

References

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  1. ^ Bibliothèque St Geneviève, Paris, MS Français 3143 - original French manuscript by Jehan Adam
  2. ^ “Jehan Adam, Traicté en arismetique pour la practique par gectouers… Parchemin. XVe siècle (1475).”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1], 3 July 2008 (last accessed), archived from the original on 30 September 2007
  3. ^ Lynn Thorndike, “The Arithmetic of Jehan Adam, A.D. 1475,” Science and Thought in the Fifteenth Century
  4. ^ Chuquet, Nicolas (1484), Triparty en la science des nombres (ISSN 9012-9458), Bologna (Italy): Aristide Marre, published 1880    Idem (1 March 2008 (last accessed)), “Nicolas Chuquet's manuscript”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[2], Published by www.miakinen.net
  5. ^ Idem (1 March 2008 (last accessed)), “Nicolas Chuquet's chapter”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[3], Transcription by Michael Florencetime

Further reading

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  • “billion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Middle French

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Noun

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billion m (plural billions)

  1. billion, a million-million, 1012
    • 1520, Étienne de La Roche, L'arismethique novellement composee, page 6:ung billion vault mille milliers de millionsa billion is equivalent to a thousand thousands of millions

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