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billion | bevatron |

As a numeral billion

is a milliard, a thousand million: 1 followed by nine zeros, 109.

As a noun bevatron is

a particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.

billion

English

Numeral

(head)
  • A milliard, a thousand million: 1 followed by nine zeros, 109.
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  • A million million: a 1 followed by twelve zeros, 1012.
  • (colloquial, in the plural, hyperbole) A very large number.

    • See also

    * (short scale) Previous': million. ' Next trillion: * (long scale) Previous': milliard. ' Next billiard: * ISO prefix: giga-

    Derived terms

    * billionaire

    Related terms

    * trillion, coined at same time

    bevatron

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.
  • * 1948 , Can huge new atom guns shoot out biggest secrets?'' (in ''Popular Science , volume 152, number 1, January 1948)
    • Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron, revealed the plans for one of these machines recently at the Sheffield centennial at Yale. It will be called a bevatron .
  • * 1987 , Armin Hermann, Lanfranco Belloni, John Krige, History of CERN: Launching the European Organization for Nuclear Research
    • By pursuing this option her physicists had the best of both worlds: they could have access to a bevatron without disrupting their domestic programme.
  • * 1990 , Philip J. Regal, The anatomy of judgment
    • In his science fiction novel, Eye in the Sky , a group of visitors fall through a proton beam when an observation platform breaks at a bevatron facility.