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trillion

num
/ˈtɹɪljən/

Etymology

Borrowed from French trillion, from French tri- (“three”) + -illion, equivalent to tri- + -illion. The noun was coined by American basketball player Harvey Pollack, because of the way the numbers read across a basketball box score.

  1. borrowed from trillion

Definitions

  1. Either of two large amounts

    Either of two large amounts:

    • Javik: Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. Their silence is your answer.
    • Data published by the Treasury Department showed that “total public debt outstanding” rose to $34.001 trillion on December 29.

  2. An unspecified very large number.

    • Near-synonyms: gazillion; see also Thesaurus:zillion
    • There were trillions of people at the concert.

  3. A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for trillion. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA