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   bil·lion

   /ˈbilyən/

   cardinal

   • 1. the number equivalent to the product of a thousand and a million; 1,000,000,000 or 109: "a world population of over 6 billion"
   • ▪ a very large number or amount of something: "our immune systems are killing billions of germs right now"
   • ▪ a billion dollars (or pounds, etc.): "the problem persists despite the billions spent on it"
   • ▪ a million million (1,000,000,000,000 or 1012).

   Word Origin late 17th century: from French, from million, by substitution of the prefix bi- ‘two’ for the initial letters.

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