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one million million

one million million

4.3
A number equal to one followed by twelve zeros
  • numeral
  • /wʌn ˈmɪljən ˈmɪljən/
translation icon : un billón
  • The national debt has reached over one million million dollars this year.

Examples

  • Scientists estimate that the galaxy contains at least one million million stars.

  • If you stacked one million million coins, the tower would reach far into space.

  • Wow! That's over one million million dollars!

  • The population of the city reached one million million last year.

  • Scientists estimate that the galaxy contains at least one million million stars.

  • The national debt has reached over one million million dollars this year.

  • If you stacked one million million coins, the tower would reach far into space.

Synonyms

trillion
vsone million million
21 2.8

A number equal to one million million, written as 1,000,000,000,000

is the historical British name for the same number while American usage differs

Surface Forms

one million million cardinal word
1,000,000,000,000 cardinal digit
1,000,000,000,000 cardinal digit
1,000,000,000,000 cardinal digit

Morphology

one + million + million

The phrase is fully compositional: a learner who knows 'one' and 'million' can combine them to interpret 'one million million' as one times a million millions (1,000,000 × 1,000,000 = 1,000,000,000,000). While labels like 'billion' or 'trillion' vary by long/short scale between dialects, the numeric construction itself is transparently derivable from the constituents.

Etymology

One million million can be pictured as one million piles of one million coins, which together make the number 1,000,000,000,000. That's why it means a million times a million, and in American English this very large number is called 'trillion'.