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Meaning of billion

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  billion
      adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million
             items or units in the United States
      2: denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items
         or units in Great Britain
      n 1: 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 [syn: {billion}, {one
           million million}, {1000000000000}]
      2: a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole); "there
         were millions of flies" [syn: {million}, {billion},
         {trillion}, {zillion}, {jillion}, {gazillion}]
      3: the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros
         [syn: {billion}, {one thousand million}, {1000000000}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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