Billion vs Dillion - What's the difference?
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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.
(slang, hyperbole) An unspecified large number (of).
* 1982 , Roald Dahl, The BFG
* 2012 , Gretel Killeen, My Sister's a Yo-Yo
* 2014 , Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land
Dillion is a synonym of billion.
As a numeral billion
is a milliard, a thousand million: 1 followed by nine zeros, 109.As a noun dillion is
an unspecified large number (of).billion
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(head)citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
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* (short scale) Previous': million. ' Next trillion: * (long scale) Previous': milliard. ' Next billiard: * ISO prefix: giga-Derived terms
* billionairedillion
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(en noun)- 'The human bean,' the Giant went on, 'is coming in dillions of different flavours.
- He'd been sitting in the car for a dillion years waiting for his mother to find her glasses.
- You have like a dillion books here, probably nobody would have even looked at it.