英语词汇“billion”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

billion

/ˈbɪljən

cardinal number (plural billions or (with numeral or quantifying word) same)

1The number equivalent to the product of a thousand and a million; 1,000,000,000 or 10⁹: a world population of nearly 5 billion half a billion dollars...

They export more than three and a half billion dollars worth of liquefied natural gas a year.
Measurements of infrared light reveal that the black hole has a mass equivalent to three billion suns.
In this case four big donors get big contracts of between half a billion and two billion dollars.

1.1 (billions) informal A very large number or amount of something: our immune systems are killing billions of germs right now...

Massive arcologies looming in the distance, like small mountains covered in billions of tiny lights.
Only one surviving bacterium or virus could multiply into billions in no time.
A vegetarian diet would drastically reduce the amount of crop land needed to feed billions.

1.2A billion pounds or dollars: the problem persists despite the billions spent on it...

Throughout that month, the Bank of England spent billions ensuring the pound stayed within its ERM band.
It would be the best two and a half billion ever spent for the legacy an Olympics would give to British sport.
About half a billion in tax and lottery money has been poured into British sport over the past four years.

1.3 dated, British A million million (1,000,000,000,000 or 10¹²).1,000,000,000,000: Trillion. An old British tradition calls this a Billion...

A conventional British billion is a thousand times bigger than an American billion.
The 'old' billion was 1000,000,000,000; this is now the trillion.

Derivatives

billionth

/ˈbɪlɪənθ

/ ordinal number ...

The devices play nice with each other, the way routers do on the Internet - your transmitter will check and if this particular frequency is not being used for the next 50 billionths of a second by another device, it'll send its data out on it.
But tumors, hormonal and reproductive problems have only appeared in rodents at extremely high, daily doses - in several grams per kilogram, not billionths of grams.
Researchers envisage a time when tiny machines no more than a few billionths of a metre across surge though our bodies to deliver drugs and destroy disease-causing pathogens.

Origin

Late 17th century: from French, from million, by substitution of the prefix bi- 'two' for the initial letters.

单词	billion
释义	billion /ˈbɪljən / cardinal number (plural billions or (with numeral or quantifying word) same) 1The number equivalent to the product of a thousand and a million; 1,000,000,000 or 10⁹: a world population of nearly 5 billion half a billion dollars... They export more than three and a half billion dollars worth of liquefied natural gas a year. Measurements of infrared light reveal that the black hole has a mass equivalent to three billion suns. In this case four big donors get big contracts of between half a billion and two billion dollars. 1.1 (billions) informal A very large number or amount of something: our immune systems are killing billions of germs right now... Massive arcologies looming in the distance, like small mountains covered in billions of tiny lights. Only one surviving bacterium or virus could multiply into billions in no time. A vegetarian diet would drastically reduce the amount of crop land needed to feed billions. 1.2A billion pounds or dollars: the problem persists despite the billions spent on it... Throughout that month, the Bank of England spent billions ensuring the pound stayed within its ERM band. It would be the best two and a half billion ever spent for the legacy an Olympics would give to British sport. About half a billion in tax and lottery money has been poured into British sport over the past four years. 1.3 dated, British A million million (1,000,000,000,000 or 10¹²).1,000,000,000,000: Trillion. An old British tradition calls this a Billion... A conventional British billion is a thousand times bigger than an American billion. The 'old' billion was 1000,000,000,000; this is now the trillion. Derivatives billionth /ˈbɪlɪənθ / ordinal number ... The devices play nice with each other, the way routers do on the Internet - your transmitter will check and if this particular frequency is not being used for the next 50 billionths of a second by another device, it'll send its data out on it. But tumors, hormonal and reproductive problems have only appeared in rodents at extremely high, daily doses - in several grams per kilogram, not billionths of grams. Researchers envisage a time when tiny machines no more than a few billionths of a metre across surge though our bodies to deliver drugs and destroy disease-causing pathogens. Origin Late 17th century: from French, from million, by substitution of the prefix bi- 'two' for the initial letters. Rhymes jillion, million, bajillion, modillion, multibillion, multimillion, pillion, septillion, sextillion, squillion, trillion, zillion
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billion

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billionth

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