milliard
- noun
- /ˈmɪljəd/
- Archaic
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- Together they act as a single telescope 38 meters across, for a resolution of 2 milliard seconds—20 times finer than the Hubble Space Telescope can achieve.
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In other countries, your "billion" = their "milliard."
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Just like the vapor or milliard hypotheses do?
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On Chinese development projects and foreign debt abatement in Senegal, see, for example, the posting of an article from the Dakar newspaper Le Soleil of June 13, 2007, "23 milliards de la Chine.
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The transition from sovereign people to government wards, and the accompanying dispossession, is evident in the historical geography of many Indian nations (Milliard 1971; Janke 1982; Wishart.
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It is also consistent across age levels, as it has been observed in highly creative high school (Milliard, 1993), middle school (Plucker & McIntire, 1996), and preschool (Kanevsky, 1992) gifted students.
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In Britain, a billion is often referred to as a milliard, which equals one thousand million.
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The bank's assets were reported to be around two milliards in the latest financial statement.
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While the population of the city reached almost four milliards, the infrastructure struggled to keep up.
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One thousand million written 1,000,000,000, sometimes formerly used in Britain to mean one million million
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Etymology
The word milliard comes from the part milli- meaning 'thousand' plus a French ending -ard, and it is related to million. So, a milliard is 'one thousand million', 1,000,000,000, and it was once common in British English and is still used in some countries instead of 'billion'.