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English Dictionary: trillion	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
trillion adj one quintillion in Great Britain one million million in the United States n a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole); "there were millions of flies" Synonym(s): million, billion, trillion, zillion, jillion, gazillion the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros; "in England they call a quintillion a trillion" Synonym(s): trillion, one million million million the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; "in England they call a trillion a billion" Synonym(s): trillion, one million million, 1000000000000
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trillion \Tril"lion\, n. [F. trillion, formed from the pref. tri- in imitation of million a million. Cf. {Billion}.] According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the third power, or the number represented by a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed. See the Note under {Numeration}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
trillion In Britain, France, and Germany, 10^18 or a million cubed. In the USA and Canada, 10^12. [Elsewhere?] (1996-10-03)