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• Hundred Thousand Billion Poems — Raymond Queneau’s Hundred Thousand Billion Poems or One hundred million million poems (original French title: Cent mille milliards de poèmes ), published in 1961, is a set of ten sonnets. They are printed on card with each line on a separated… …   Wikipedia

• billion — bil‧lion [ˈbɪljən] number written abbreviation bn , bil. billion PLURALFORM or …   Financial and business terms

• Billion — may refer to:In numbers: *Billion (word), explanation of long and short scales *1,000,000,000 (number), one thousand million, 10^{9}, in the commonly used short scale *1,000,000,000,000 (number), one million million, 10^{12}, in the long scale In …   Wikipedia

• billion — now means ‘a thousand million’ in BrE as it always has in AmE, and its old BrE meaning of ‘a million million’ has been superseded. In more idiomatic uses (as in I ve told you a billion times) there is no precise meaning. When preceded by a… …   Modern English usage

• 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 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• billion-dollar — UK US adjective [before noun] ► used to describe something that is worth at least one thousand million dollars: »The drug giant is seeking approval for a new drug that could be its next billion dollar product …   Financial and business terms

• billion — 1680s, from Fr. billion (originally byllion in Chuquet s unpublished Le Triparty en la Science des Nombres, 1484; copied by De la Roche, 1520), from bi two + (m)illion. A million million in Britain and Germany (numeration by groups of sixes),… …   Etymology dictionary

• billion — [bil′yən] n. [Fr < bi , BI 1 + (mi)llion] 1. a thousand millions (1,000,000,000) 2. former Brit. term for TRILLION (a million millions) adj. amounting to one billion in number …   English World dictionary

• billion — ► CARDINAL NUMBER (pl. billions or (with numeral or quantifying word) same) 1) the number equivalent to the product of a thousand and a million; 1,000,000,000 or 109. 2) dated, chiefly Brit. a million million (1,000,000,000,000 or 1012). 3)… …   English terms dictionary

• thousand — Synonyms and related words: G, M, a billion, a crore, a lakh, a million, a myriad, a nonillion, a quadrillion, a thousand, a zillion, billion, chiliad, chiliagon, chiliahedron, chiliarch, chiliarchia, considerable, ever so many, full many, gobs,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• billion — /ˈbɪljən / (say bilyuhn) noun (plural billions, as after a numeral, billion) 1. (originally US and now in general use in English worldwide) a thousand times a million, or 109. 2. Obsolescent a million times a million, or 1012. 3. Colloquial a… …