Billion - Definition
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]