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billion

/bil-yuhn/US // ˈbɪl yən //UK // (ˈbɪljən) //

十亿,亿,十亿美元,十亿美金

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural bil·lions, bil·lion.

    • : a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 9 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 12 zeros.
    • : a very large number: I've told you so billions of times.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : equal in number to a billion.

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Examples

  • Moderna had promised to make up to a billion doses during 2021.

  • At just a few parts per billion—a range similar to our natural noses—the biohybrid “nose” was able to reliably pick up the smell, with over 90 percent accuracy.

  • In the world of Big Tech there has long been a important obsession about getting the internet to the “next billion” people.

  • Even a few hundred billion galaxies means there’s an entire galaxy out there for every star in the Milky Way.

  • A former financier with the multi-billion dollar investment firm, Citadel, Hathiramani sees Flockjay, and the business of tech sales as a way for a number of people to transform their lives.

  • Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.

  • And as a bonus, they send home more than $20 billion in remittances each year.

  • The amount of vanished bitcoins was 650,000 BTC (or 24.7 billion yen).

  • Why else would $4 billion have been spent on the midterm election?

  • Among other things, the bill appropriates $1.1 trillion in funding—including over $550 billion for the Department of Defense.

  • Expenditure for new manufacturing plant and equipment exceeded one billion dollars in one recent seven-year period.

  • He had never imagined wild flowers by the billion, nor such a harmonious variety of color.

  • Oh, it's worth a billion milrays to look upon a live person again!

  • Well, I'll just bet you a million billion dollars He can't make a trolley car go in two directions at the same time.

  • "Over three and a half billion eggs and small fish were distributed last year, if I remember rightly," was the reply.