billion
a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 9 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 12 zeros.
a very large number: I've told you so billions of times.
equal in number to a billion.
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Origin of billion
1Other words from billion
- billionth, adjective, noun
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How to use billion in a sentence
Moderna had promised to make up to a billion doses during 2021.
The next act for messenger RNA could be bigger than covid vaccines | David Rotman | February 5, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewAt just a few parts per billion—a range similar to our natural noses—the biohybrid “nose” was able to reliably pick up the smell, with over 90 percent accuracy.
Scientists Made a Biohybrid Nose Using Cells From Mosquitoes | Shelly Fan | January 26, 2021 | Singularity HubIn the world of Big Tech there has long been a important obsession about getting the internet to the “next billion” people.
Google’s ambitious Loon internet balloon project has crash-landed | Socrates Mbamalu | January 22, 2021 | QuartzEven a few hundred billion galaxies means there’s an entire galaxy out there for every star in the Milky Way.
How Many Galaxies Are in the Universe? A New Answer From the Darkest Sky Ever Observed | Jason Dorrier | January 15, 2021 | Singularity HubA former financier with the multi-billion dollar investment firm, Citadel, Hathiramani sees Flockjay, and the business of tech sales as a way for a number of people to transform their lives.
Want a job in tech? Flockjay pitches its sales training service as an on-ramp to tech careers | Jonathan Shieber | January 15, 2021 | TechCrunch
Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.
And as a bonus, they send home more than $20 billion in remittances each year.
Why Mexicans Are Enraged by Obama’s Big Tuesday Meeting | Ruben Navarrette Jr. | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe amount of vanished bitcoins was 650,000 BTC (or 24.7 billion yen).
Japanese Bitcoin Heist ‘an Inside Job,’ Not Hackers Alone | Nathalie-Kyoko Stucky, Jake Adelstein | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTWhy else would $4 billion have been spent on the midterm election?
Among other things, the bill appropriates $1.1 trillion in funding—including over $550 billion for the Department of Defense.
Expenditure for new manufacturing plant and equipment exceeded one billion dollars in one recent seven-year period.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyHe had never imagined wild flowers by the billion, nor such a harmonious variety of color.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonOh, it's worth a billion milrays to look upon a live person again!
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)Well, I'll just bet you a million billion dollars He can't make a trolley car go in two directions at the same time.
The Boy Grew Older | Heywood Broun"Over three and a half billion eggs and small fish were distributed last year, if I remember rightly," was the reply.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries | Francis Rolt-Wheeler
British Dictionary definitions for billion
/ (ˈbɪljən) /
one thousand million: it is written as 1 000 000 000 or 10 9
(formerly, in Britain) one million million: it is written as 1 000 000 000 000 or 10 12
(often plural) any exceptionally large number
(preceded by a or a cardinal number)
amounting to a billion: it seems like a billion years ago
(as pronoun): we have a billion here
Origin of billion
1Derived forms of billion
- billionth, adjective, noun
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