| 单词 | billion |
| 释义 | billion (once / 61 pages) adjn A billion is 1,000,000,000. There are over 7 billion people in the world, the last time we checked. While billion may sounds like a made-up number like zillion — which just means a lot — it's a very real number, specifically 1,000,000,000. That's a pretty hard number to imagine, but one way to think of it is as a thousand millions. If you have a billion dollars, you're very rich: a billionaire. Money spent by the government is often measured in billions. In England, this word often refers to a different number: 1,000,000,000,000, or one million millions. WORD FAMILYbillion: billions USAGE EXAMPLESIts China unit was bleeding some $2 billion in losses already. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) In December, more than a billion streams were served in a single week for the first time. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) The system is merging the two hospitals into a $1 billion medical center focused heavily on outpatient care. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States Syn cardinal being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order 2adj denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain Syn cardinal being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order 3n the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros Syn|Hypo|Hyper 1000000000, one thousand million milliard a billion large integer an integer equal to or greater than ten 4n 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|Hyper 1000000000000, one million million large integer an integer equal to or greater than ten 5n a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) Syn|Hyper gazillion, jillion, million, trillion, zillion large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude |
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