trillion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros

   in England they call a trillion a billion

2. 2
   noun

   the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros

   in England they call a quintillion a trillion

3. 3
   noun

   a very large indefinite number, usually hyperbole

   Bill Gates has about a trillion dollars.

4. 4
   num

   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.

5. 5
   num

   An unspecified very large number.

   Near-synonyms: gazillion; see also Thesaurus:zillion

6. 6
   adj

   one million million in the United States

7. 7
   adj

   one quintillion in Great Britain

8. 8
   noun

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

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.