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Definition of billion - Reverso English Dictionary
Noun
1.
modern numberUK one thousand million in modern usageUK
- The company is worth over a billion dollars.
2.
- I've told you a billion times to clean your room!
Adjective
1.
numberUS amounting to a thousand millionUS
- The company made billion dollar profits.
2.
- There are billion stars in the sky.
Expressions with billion
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someone who is exceptionally good or impressive
He is truly one in a billion when it comes to solving problems.
worth, costing, or involving a billion dollars
They signed a billion-dollar contract.
equal to five hundred million in number or amount
The company made a half-billion dollars last year.
unit measuring computer speed in floating point operations
The processor achieves 5 billion floating point operations per second.
Origin of billion
French, bi (two) + million (million)
Terms with billion included in their meaning
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business
startup valued over one billion dollars
abr: Gigahertz
unit measuring frequency equal to one billion hertz
finance
related to companies with market value over five billion dollars
abr: Gigatonne
unit for measuring mass equal to one billion tonnes
astronomy
small galaxy with few billion stars
astronomy
period of one billion years
frequency
unit of frequency equal to one billion hertz
finance
related to companies with market value over five billion dollars
mathematics
numbering system where a billion is a million million
numeric system
system of naming numbers where billion is thousand million
technology
one billion bytes in computing
measurement
unit of volume equal to 1 billion cubic meters
abr: one billion
the number 1,000,000,000
technology
unit of capacitance equal to one billion farads
geology
geological eon from about 4 to 2.5 billion years ago
abr: Billion Cubic Feet
unit measuring one billion cubic feet of gas or liquid
abr: billion
number equal to one thousand million
abr: billion
number equal to one thousand million
high revenue
drug generating over $1 billion in revenue annually
abr: billion
number equal to one thousand million
acr: billion years ago
billion years before now
finance
private startup valued at $10 billion or more
abr: exabyte
unit for measuring digital data equal to one billion gigabytes
abr: Gigabyte
unit for measuring digital storage, equal to one billion bytes
Examples of billion in a sentence
He donated a billion to charity. She has a billion things to do today. There are a billion stars in the sky. They signed a billion dollar contract. The project required billion dollar investments. The company made a billion dollar profit.
He has a billion ideas for the project.
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- French:milliard, milliardaire, ...
- German:Milliarde, Milliarden-, ...
- Italian:miliardo, da miliardi, ...
- Spanish:mil millones, milmillonario, ...
- Portuguese:mil milhões, bilhão, ...
- Chinese:十亿, 十亿的, ...
- Japanese:10億, 10億の, ...
- Arabic:مِلْيَار, هائل, ...
- Hebrew:מִילְיָארְד, מִילְיוֹן, ...
- Russian:миллиард, миллиардный, ...
- Ukrainian:мільярд, мільярдний, ...
- Hindi:अरब, एक हज़ार मिलियन के बराबर, ...
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