Lexic.us

Definition of One million million

1. Noun. The number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros. "In England they call a trillion a billion"

2. Noun. The number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequently seen.

Lexicographical Neighbors of One Million Million

one hundred seventy-five one hundred six one hundred sixty one hundred sixty-five one hundred ten one hundred thirty one hundred thirty-five one hundred twenty one hundred twenty-five one in a million

one in the eye for one iron one legged one man and a dog one million one million million (current term) one million million million one moment, please one more time for the sweet souvenir one o'clock

one of a kind one of a kinds one of his majesty's bad bargains one of the boys one of these days one of those days one one's coattails one percent one short

Literary usage of One million million

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elementary Zoology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1901)
"In the second generation there would be one million million of oysters, and in the fourth, ie the great great grandchildren of the first oyster, ..."

2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"If the mass moved is the same, and the range of motion is the same, then the force would be one million million million million times as great as the force ..."

3. Lessons in Chemical Philosophy: An Introductory Study for Use in Colleges by John Howard Appleton, Herbert William Conn (1890)
"... an amount about equal to one and one quarter ounces divided by one million million million million. This minute weight has received the special name ..."

4. Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology by Michael Faraday, Hermann von Helmholtz, William Thomson Kelvin, Simon Newcomb, Archibald Geikie (1910)
"If the mass moved is the same, and the range of motion is the same, then the force would be one million million million million times as great as the force ..."

5. Christian Faith and the New Psychology: Evolution and Recent Science as Aids by David Ambrose Murray (1911)
"... it would take just one million million years,—we are assuming,—for those energies and processes to so far develop things as to bring them into precisely ..."

6. Popular Science Monthly (1902)
"The united weight of one million million million molecules of hydrogen would therefore just be detectable on such a balance. Ultra-Atomic Matter. ..."

7. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"A billion is one million million. To tick a billion the clock would tick for over 31 735 years. (In Prance and America a thousand millions is called a ..."

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