Borrowed fromFrenchtrillion, fromFrenchtri-(“three”) +-illion, equivalent totri- +-illion.
trillion (pluraltrillions)
- (US, modern British, Australia, short scale) Amillion (times a)million: 1 followed by twelve zeros, 1012.
2024 January 3, Hanna Ziady and Tami Luhby, “US national debt hits record $34 trillion”, inCNN[1]:Data published by the Treasury Department showed that “total public debt outstanding” rose to $34.001trillion on December 29.
2025 March 7, Kayla Tausche, “Dismantling of Education Department puts future of trillions of dollars in student loans in question”, inCNN[2]:As President Donald Trump prepares to order the dismantling of the Department of Education, the financial arm of the agency – which makes loans directly to borrowers and managestrillions of dollars in student debt – faces an uncertain future, with steep staff cuts and lack of communication exacerbating the uncertainty, according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former department employees.
- (dated British, Australia, long scale) Amillion (times a)million (times a)million: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 1018.
a million million, 10
12—see alsobillion- Afrikaans:biljoen (af)
- Arabic:بِلْيُون m(bilyūn),تِرِيلِيُون m(tirīliyūn)
- Armenian:տրիլիոն (hy)(trilion),երկիլիոն (hy)(erkilion)
- Belarusian:трыльён m(trylʹjón)
- Bulgarian:трилио́н m(trilión)
- Burmese:ထရီလီယံ(hta.riliyam)
- Catalan:bilió (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:萬億 /万亿 (zh)(wànyì),兆 (zh)(zhào)
- Czech:bilión (cs) m
- Dutch:biljoen (nl) n
- Esperanto:biliono,duiliono (eo)
- Estonian:biljon
- Faroese:billión f
- Finnish:biljoona (fi)
- French:billion (fr) m,mille milliards (fr) m pl
- Georgian:ტრილიონი(ṭrilioni)
- German:Billion (de) f
- Greek:τρισεκατομμύριο (el) n(trisekatommýrio)
- Greenlandic:billioni
- Hungarian:billió (hu)
- Indonesian:triliun,biliun
- Italian:bilione (it) f
- Japanese:兆 (ja)(ちょう, chō)
- Javanese:kirna
- Khmer:ពាន់ពាន់លាន(pŏənpŏənliən),លានលាន(liən liən)
- Korean:조(兆) (ko)(jo),만억(萬億) (ko)(maneok)
- Malay:trilion (ms)
- Maltese:biljun
- Manchu:ᠰᠠᠵᠠ(saja)
- Navajo:chiyóón
- Persian:تریلیون (fa)(terilyon)
- Polish:bilion (pl) m inan
- Portuguese:bilião (pt)(Angola, Portugal),trilhão (pt)(Brazil)
- Romanian:bilion (ro) n
- Russian:триллио́н (ru) m(trillión)
- Sanskrit:महापद्म (sa)(mahāpadma)
- Slovak:bilión (sk) m
- Spanish:billón (es) m
- Swahili:trilioni
- Swedish:biljon (sv) c
- Tagalog:trilyon
- Tatar:триллион (tt)(trillion)
- Turkish:trilyon (tr)
- Ukrainian:трильйо́н (uk) m(trylʹjón)
- Vietnamese:nghìntỉ,ngàntỉ
- Yiddish:ביליאָן m(bilyon)
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Coined byHarvey Pollack, because of the way the numbers read across a basketball box score.
trillion (pluraltrillions)
- (basketball, slang) A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats.
Fromtri-(“three”) +-illion, frommillion;i.e. amillionmillionmillion.
Coined byJehan Adam in 1475 astrimillion.Rendered astryllion byNicolas Chuquet in 1484, in his article “Triparty en la science des nombres”.
trillion m (pluraltrillions)
- quintillion(1018)
- (dated)trillion(1012)
trillion m (pluraltrillions)
- trillion, 1018
1520, Étienne de La Roche,L'arismethique novellement composee,page 6:ung trillion vault mille milliers debillions- a trillion is equivalent to a thousand thousands of billions
trillion (Cyrillic spellingтриллион)
- trillion (1012)
