1000000000
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Definition
- Noun:
- The number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros: This is the cardinal number equal to 10⁹, or one thousand million.
Usage
- The word "1000000000" is used as a specific numerical value. In American English, it is commonly referred to as "one billion." In British English, this number was historically called "one thousand million," while "one billion" referred to 10¹² (one million million). However, the American usage is now widely adopted internationally in most scientific and financial contexts.
Examples
- Noun:
- The company's revenue exceeded 1000000000 dollars last year.
- It is estimated that the galaxy contains over 1000000000 stars.
Advanced Usage
- As a quantifier: Often used with nouns to indicate an extremely large quantity.
- The app has been downloaded over 1000000000 times.
- In finance and science: This number is a standard unit for reporting large figures, such as national debts, corporate valuations, or distances in astronomy (e.g., billions of light-years).
Variants and Related Words
- Billion (n): The most common word for this number.
- The project cost several billion dollars.
- Giga- (prefix): A prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of one billion (10⁹).
- A gigabyte is one billion bytes.
- Milliard (n): The historical term for one thousand million, primarily used in some European languages and formerly in British English.
Synonyms
- One billion: The standard synonym.
- A thousand million: A descriptive synonym, clarifying the numerical value.
Related Phrases
- In the billions: Describing an amount that numbers in the multiple billions.
- The national debt is in the billions.
- Billions and billions: A phrase used for emphasis to denote a very large, often uncountable number.
- There are billions and billions of stars in the universe.
Noun
- the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros