trillion
//ˈtɹɪljən//
Forms
- Plural
- trillions
Definitions
1.A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats.(slang)
1.Either of two large amounts:
- Javik: Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. Their silence is your answer.
- Data published by the Treasury Department showed that “total public debt outstanding” rose to $34.001 trillion on December 29.
2.An unspecified very large number.(colloquial)
- There were trillions of people at the concert.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4964
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Borrowed from French trillion, from French tri- (“three”) + -illion, equivalent to tri- + -illion.
The noun was coined by American basketball player Harvey Pollack, because of the way the numbers read across a basketball box score.