trillion

trillion
(pl. trillions或[与数词连用]复同单)
  1. a million million (1,000,000,000,000 or 1012)
    一万亿,一百万兆
    ■(trillions)(informal)a very large number or amount
    (非正式)极多
    the yammering of trillions of voices.
    无数的哀号声。
    ■(dated, chiefly Brit.)a million million million (1,000,000,000,000,000,000 or 1018)
    (旧,主英)一万亿兆
派生
trillionth
ordinal number
语源
  1. late 17th cent.: from French, from million, by substitution of the prefix tri- 'three' for the initial letters
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