(noun.) the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros.

(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.

(adj.) denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States .

(adj.) denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain .

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• Licensees under Edison patents in this country alone produce upward of 60,000,000 feet of films annually, containing more than a billion and a half separate photographs. 弗蘭克·劉易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• Even the log of wood which lies heavy and motionless on our woodpile is made up of countless billions of molecules each in rapid incessant motion. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
• Countless billions died before the first black man broke through his prison walls into the light of day. 埃德加·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.

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