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What is the difference between milliard and million?

milliard | million |

As numerals the difference between milliard and million

is that milliard is 109, a thousand times a million. (Now generally replaced by {{term|billion}}. while million is the cardinal number 1,000,000: 106.

milliard

English

Numeral

(en noun)
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 155:
  • *:For the coming year France would contribute 80 milliard francs ($200 million) to the Algerian budget [...].

    • Derived terms

    * milliardth

    See also

    * Previous': million. ' Next : billion. * Symbolic: 109 = 1,000,000,000

    Synonyms

    * a billion

    million

    English

    Numeral

    (head)
  • The cardinal number 1,000,000: 106.

    • See also

    * (short scale) Previous': thousand. ' Next : billion * (long scale) Previous': thousand. ' Next : milliard * (Ordinal) millionth * ISO prefix: mega-

    Derived terms

    * like a million bucks * megamillion * millionary * millionfold * millionth * millionaire * never in a million years * one in a million * one million * thanks a million

    Related terms

    * billion * trillion