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Billion

noun

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. Synonyms: 1000000000000, one million million.

2.

A very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole). Synonyms: gazillion, jillion, million, trillion, zillion.

3.

The number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros. Synonyms: 1000000000, one thousand million.

adjective

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.

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"Billion" Quotes from Famous Books

... considerably more than one million tons. If this were all made up into the refreshing drink we get at our breakfast tables, there would be enough to supply every inhabitant of the earth with some sixty cups a year, representing a total of more than ninety billion cups. In terms of pounds the annual world output amounts to about two and a quarter billions—an amount so large that if it were done up in the familiar one-pound paper packages; and if these packages were laid end to end in a row; they would form a line long enough to ...

— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers

... Catholic Church is firmly established and everywhere recognized as one of the main pillars of American capitalism. It has some fifteen thousand churches, fourteen million communicants, and property valued at half a billion dollars. Upon this property it pays no taxes, municipal, state or national; which means, quite obviously, that you and I, who do not go to church, but who do pay taxes, furnish the public costs of Catholicism. We pay to have streets paved and lighted and cleaned in ...

— The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition • Upton Sinclair

... the mouth of an enormous Seeze Pyder, an aquatic and ferocious creature truly dreadful to behold, and, happily, only met with in those excessive longitudes! In a moment, the beautiful boat was bitten into fifty-five thousand million hundred billion bits; and it instantly became quite clear that Violet, Slingsby, Guy, and Lionel could no longer preliminate their ...

— Nonsense Books • Edward Lear

... atoms of a grain of musk must be, since it will perfume every breath of air blowing through a hall for a quarter of a century, and then not be perceptibly diminished. An ounce of gold may be reduced into four hundred and thirty two billion parts, each microscopically visible.30 There is a deposit of slate in Bohemia covering forty square miles to the depth of eight feet, each cubic inch of which Ehrenberg found by microscopic measurement ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

... with change and even to welcome it because the time of troubles through which their society is passing is warning them of the dangers they face. At the same time they are learning, bit by bit, of the spectacular achievements of the billion human beings ...

— Civilization and Beyond - Learning From History • Scott Nearing

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