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单词 trillion
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trillionn.

Brit. /ˈtrɪljən/, U.S. /ˈtrɪljən/
Etymology: = French trillion (N. Chuquet, c1484), Italian trillione, from the stem of million with substitution of tri-: compare billion.
The third power of a million; a million billions, i.e. millions of millions. Also, originally in France and local U.S., a thousand ‘billions’, or 1012 (i.e. the traditional English billion: see billion n.): this sense is now standard in the U.S. and is increasingly common in British usage. The terms billion, trillion, quadrillion, etc., up to nonillion, are explained by N. Chuquet, in his Triparty de la Science des Nombres (lf. 2 r) printed in Bullettino di Bibliografia e di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche XIII. 593 (Roma 1880); also in the Arismetique of Ét. de la Roche, 1520. Both of these early writers explain billion, trillion, etc. as successive powers of a million, the trillion being the third power of a million, ‘a million of millions of millions’, as formerly always used in England. According to Littré, it was only in the middle of the 17th cent. that the ‘erroneous’ custom was established of dividing series of figures above a million into groups of three, and calling a thousand millions a billion, and a million millions a trillion, an entire perversion of the nomenclature of Chuquet and De la Roche.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > powers of a million
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sextillion1690
trimillion1707
decillion1709
centillion1754
sexillion1758
vigintillion1928
googol1940
googolplex1940
squillion1943
a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) i. 14 Others..call..the nineteenth place Trillion.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xvi. 99 But to shew how much distinct Names conduce to our well reckoning..let us set all these following Figures in one continued Line..: Nonilions. Octilions... Trilions. Bilions. Milions. Vnites. 857324. 162486... 235421. 261734. 368149. 623137. The ordinary way of naming this Number in English, will be the often repeating of Millions, of Millions, of Millions, [etc.].
1706 W. Jones Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos 8 Then the 3d. Point from Units stands under Trillions.
1798 C. Hutton Course Math. I. 5 The name of the first period being units; of the second, millions; of the third, millions of millions, or bi-millions, contracted to billions; of the fourth, millions of millions of millions, or tri-millions, contracted to trillions.
1802 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1803) 6 337 He wished also to purchase the words billions, trillions, and quadrillions, in order to make his constituents comprehend the immensity of their burdens, and the profundity of his arithmetic.
1867 E. B. Denison Astron. without Math. (ed. 3) 226 You will find the tons in..the earth [to be] 5842 with 18 cyphers after it or 5842 trillions of tons.
1919 Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) 12 Mar. 2/7 The consideration of reparations has introduced the word ‘trillion’ in recognizing money... In estimating the war losses of all the powers the first figures of one of the great powers aggregated a trillion francs and those of another power were slightly above a half trillion francs, namely, six hundred billion francs.
1971 Daily Tel. 30 Jan. 13 For the current calendar year the ‘magic trillion’ will be with us. The [American] budget assumed a 9 p.c. growth in GNP this year to $1,065,000 million.
1975 New Yorker 21 Apr. 48/1 About two trillion dollars' worth of insurance alone is currently in force.
1980 Guardian Weekly 30 Nov. 8/1 Plans to devote a trillion dollars to US military spending over the next five years.
1982 Nature 1 July 9/1 Compositions of many important trace species are in the parts per trillion (10−12) by volume range.

Derivatives

trillionaire n. /trɪljəˈnɛə(r)/ [after millionaire] one possessing property worth a trillion of pounds, dollars, or other standard coin.
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the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > rich or wealthy person > person who has large amount of money
jingle-boya1640
four-millioneer1667
plum1709
millionary1786
millionaire1795
money bag1820
millionista1843
trimillionaire1848
multimillionaire1858
billionaire1861
millioner1865
trillionaire1873
quadrillionairea1876
thousandaire1896
milliardaire1897
multibillionaire1906
zillionaire1926
multi1950
mega-millionaire1968
squillionaire1979
1873 M. Collins Miranda I. 194 The trillionaire might turn patriot and pay the National Debt without feeling it.
1886 Tinsley's Mag. Oct. 323 A few trillionaires and struggling persons of that description.
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