trillion

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• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪljən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪljən

From French trillion, from tri- (“three”) +‎ -illion.

trillion (plural trillions)

1. (US, modern Britain, Australia, short scale) A million million: 1 followed by twelve zeros, 10¹².
2. (dated Britain, Australia, long scale) A million million million: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸.

• (short scale) Previous: billion. Next: quadrillion
• (long scale) Previous: billiard. Next: trilliard
• (SI prefix): tera-

Coined by Harvey Pollack, because of the way the numbers read across a basketball box score

trillion (plural trillions)

1. (basketball, slang) A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats.

From tri- (“three”) +‎ -illion, from million; i.e. a million million million.

Coined by Jehan Adam in 1475 as trimillion. Rendered as tryllion by Nicolas Chuquet in 1484, in his article “Triparty en la science des nombres”.

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.ljɔ̃/

trillion

1. 10¹⁸; a long scale trillion; a short scale quintillion.

• Previous: billiard, 10¹⁵
• Next: trilliard, 10²¹

• billion, coined at same time

• → Catalan: trilió

• “trillion” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

trillion m (plural trillions)

1. trillion, 10¹⁸
   • 1520, Étienne de La Roche, L'arismethique novellement composee, page 6

     ung trillion vault mille milliers de billions

     a trillion is equivalent to a thousand thousands of billions

trillion (Cyrillic spelling триллион)

1. trillion (10¹²)