trillion

• enPR: trĭl'yən, IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪljən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪljən

From French trillion, from French tri- (“three”) + -illion, equivalent to tri- +‎ -illion.

trillion (plural trillions)

1. (US, modern British, Australia, short scale) A million million: 1 followed by twelve zeros, 10¹².
   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3: From Ashes (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:

     Javik: Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. Their silence is your answer.

2. (dated British, Australia, long scale) A million million million: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸.

• (10¹²): a long scale billion
• (10¹⁸): a short scale quintillion

• → Welsh: triliwn

• (short scale) Previous: billion. Next: quadrillion
• (long scale) Previous: billiard. Next: trilliard
• (SI prefix): tera-

Coined by Harvey Pollack, because of the way the numbers read across a basketball box score.

trillion (plural trillions)

1. (basketball, slang) A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats.

French numbers ^(edit)

[a], [b] ←  1012	[a], [b] ←  1015	1018	1021  → [a], [b]	1024  →
Cardinal: un trillion, un milliard de milliards     Ordinal: trillionième, milliardième de milliardième
French Wikipedia article on 1018

From tri- (“three”) +‎ -illion, from million; i.e. a million million million.

Coined by Jehan Adam in 1475 as trimillion. Rendered as tryllion by Nicolas Chuquet in 1484, in his article “Triparty en la science des nombres”.

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.ljɔ̃/

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trillion m (plural trillions)

1. quintillion (10¹⁸)
2. (dated) trillion (10¹²)

• billion, coined at same time

• → Catalan: trilió

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

trillion m (plural trillions)

1. trillion, 10¹⁸
   • 1520, Étienne de La Roche, L'arismethique novellement composee, page 6:

     ung trillion vault mille milliers de billions

     a trillion is equivalent to a thousand thousands of billions

trillion (Cyrillic spelling триллион)

1. trillion (10¹²)