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trillion


Trillion may mean:

Numbers


Either of the two numbers (see long and short scales for more detail):
1,000,000,000,000 (one million million; 10^{12}; SI prefix: tera-) - for all short scale countries - increasingly common meaning in English language usage.
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one million million million; 10^{18}; SI prefix: exa-) - for all long scale countries - increasingly rare meaning in English language usage but frequent in many other languages.

Other meanings


One trillion (basketball), a term in basketball statistics
Trilliant cut, sometimes called trillion, a triangular type of modified brilliant cut in gemstones

See also


Names of large numbers
Trillian, a similar-sounding word.

   
   
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