trillion

See also:Trillion

English

Pronunciation

• enPR:trĭl'yən,IPA^(key):/ˈtɹɪljən/

• Audio(US):

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• Audio(General Australian):

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• Rhymes:-ɪljən

Etymology 1

FromFrenchtrillion,fromFrenchtri-(“three”)+-illion,equivalent totri-+‎-illion.

Numeral

trillion(pluraltrillions)

1. (US,modernBritish,Australia,short scale)Amillion(times a)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 atrilliondead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. Their silence is your answer.

2. (datedBritish,Australia,long scale)Amillion(times a)million(times a)million:1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸.

Synonyms

• (10¹²):along scalebillion
• (10¹⁸):ashort scalequintillion

abbreviations

• tln,tln.
• tn,tn.
• tril,tril.
• T,t,T.,t.

Coordinate terms

• thousand
• million
• milliard
• thousand million
• billion
• quadrillion
• quintillion
• sextillion

Descendants

• →Welsh:triliwn

Translations

a million million, 10¹²—see alsobillion

• Afrikaans:biljoen(af)
• Arabic:بِلْيُونm(bilyūn),تِرِيلِيُونm(tirīliyūn)
• Armenian:տրիլիոն(hy)(trilion),երկիլիոն(hy)(erkilion)
• Belarusian:трыльёнm(trylʹjón)
• Bulgarian:трилио́нm(trilión)
• Burmese:ထရီလီယံ(hta.riliyam)
• Catalan:bilió(ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Ngàn tỷ/Ngàn tỷ(zh)(wànyì),Triệu(zh)(zhào)

• Czech:bilión(cs)m
• Dutch:biljoen(nl)n
• Esperanto:biliono,duiliono(eo)
• Estonian:biljon
• Faroese:billiónf
• Finnish:biljoona(fi)
• French:billion(fr)m,mille milliards(fr)mpl
• Georgian:ტრილიონი(ṭrilioni)
• German:Billion(de)f
• Greek:τρισεκατομμύριο(el)n(trisekatommýrio)
• Greenlandic:billioni
• Hungarian:billió(hu)
• Indonesian:triliun,biliun
• Italian:bilione(it)f
• Japanese:Triệu(ja)(ちょう, chō)
• Javanese:kirna
• Khmer:ពាន់ពាន់លាន(pŏənpŏənliən),លានលាន(liən liən)
• Korean:조( triệu )(ko)(jo),만억( ngàn tỷ )(ko)(maneok)
• Malay:trilion(ms)
• Maltese:biljun
• Manchu:ᠰᠠᠵᠠ(saja)
• Navajo:chiyóón
• Persian:تریلیون(phát)(terilyon)
• Polish:bilion(pl)minan
• Portuguese:bilião(pt)(Angola,Portugal),trilhão(pt)(Brazil)
• Romanian:bilion(ro)n
• Russian:триллио́н(ru)m(trillión)
• Sanskrit:महापद्म(sa)(mahāpadma)
• Slovak:bilión(sk)m
• Spanish:billón(es)m
• Swahili:trilioni
• Swedish:biljon(sv)c
• Tagalog:trilyon
• Tatar:триллион(tt)(trillion)
• Turkish:trilyon(tr)
• Ukrainian:трильйо́н(uk)m(trylʹjón)
• Vietnamese:nghìntỉ,ngàntỉ
• Yiddish:ביליאָןm(bilyon)

a million million million, 10¹⁸—see alsoquintillion

• Arabic:تِرِيلِْيُونm(tirīliyūn)
• Armenian:եռիլիոն(hy)(eṙilion)
• Catalan:trilió(ca)
• Czech:triliónm
• Dutch:triljoen(nl)n
• Esperanto:triiliono
• Estonian:triljon
• Faroese:trilliónf
• Finnish:triljoona(fi)
• French:trillion(fr)m
• German:Trillion(de)f
• Italian:trilione(it)f
• Maltese:triljun
• Manchu:ᡨᠠᠩᡤᡡ
  ᠵᡳᡵᡠᠨ(tanggū jirun)
• Maori:tiriona
• Polish:trylion(pl)minan
• Portuguese:trilião(pt)m(Angola,Portugal)
• Romanian:trilion(ro)n
• Russian:квинтиллио́н(ru)m(kvintillión)
• Sinhalese:ත්‍රිලියනය(triliyanaya)
• Slovak:triliónm
• Spanish:trillón(es)m
• Swedish:triljon(sv)c
• Turkish:kentilyon(tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian:^{(pleaseverify)}bilionm

See also

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

trillion(pluraltrillions)

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

French

French numbers^(edit)

[a],[b]← 1012	[a],[b]← 1015	1018	1021→[a],[b]	1024→
Cardinal:untrillion,unmilliarddemilliards Ordinal:trillionième,milliardièmedemilliardième
French Wikipediaarticle on1018

Etymology

Fromtri-(“three”)+‎-illion,frommillion;i.e.amillionmillionmillion.

Coined byJehan Adamin 1475 astrimillion. Rendered astryllionbyNicolas Chuquetin 1484, in his article “Triparty en la science des nombres”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/tʁi.ljɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Numeral

trillionm(pluraltrillions)

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

Related terms

• billion,coined at same time

Descendants

• →Catalan:trilió

Further reading

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

Middle French

Noun

trillionm(pluraltrillions)

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

     ung trillion vault mille milliers debillions

     a trillion is equivalent to a thousand thousands of billions

Tatar

Numeral

trillion(Cyrillic spellingтриллион)

1. trillion(10¹²)

Declension

declension oftrillion

Nominative	trillion
Genitive	trillionnıñ
Dative	trillionga
Accusative	trillionnı
Locative	trillionda
Ablative	trilliondan