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Billion vs Kajillion - What's the difference?

billion | kajillion |

As a numeral billion

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

As a noun kajillion is

(slang|hyperbole) an unspecified large number (of).

billion

English

Numeral

(head)
  • A milliard, a thousand million: 1 followed by nine zeros, 109.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
    • , date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) 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.}}
  • 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

    kajillion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, hyperbole) An unspecified large number (of).
  • * {{quote-newsgroup, year=2000, date=1 August, author=
    • Maeve, title=Re: Maeve et Al..... kajillion little lines crossing over and under and over and under . ...}}'>citation

    Synonyms

    * See also .