thousand million

English

English numbers (edit)
 ←  1,000,000 (106)  ←  100,000,000 (108) 1,000,000,000 (109) 1012   [a], [b] 1015   [a], [b]
    Cardinal: billion, milliard, thousand million
    Ordinal: billionth, milliardth
    Multiplier: billionfold, milliardfold
    Metric collective prefix: giga-
    Metric fractional prefix: nano-
    Number of years: giga-annum, gigayear

Numeral

thousand million

  1. (chiefly UK) Synonym of billion (sense 1)
    • 1901, Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature - Volume 64:
      Remark also that it is only for facility of counting that we have reckoned our universe as a thousand million suns; []
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