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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Milliard \Mil`liard"\, n. [F., from mille, mil, thousand, L. mille.] A thousand millions; -- called also {billion}. See {Billion}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Billion \Bil"lion\, n. [F. billion, arbitrarily formed fr L. bis twice, in imitation of million a million. See {Million}.] According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See {Numeration}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: billion adj : (U.S.) denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units; (Britain) denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units [syn: {a billion}] n 1: (in Britain) the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros [syn: {one million million}, {1000000000000}] 2: (in the United States) the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros [syn: {one thousand million}, {1000000000}]
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