Billion : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Billion	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Billion
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
billion adj denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain n the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequently seen Synonym(s): billion, one million million, 1000000000000 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 9 zeros Synonym(s): billion, one thousand million, 1000000000
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Milliard \[d8]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}.