billionth
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English
[edit]← 1,000,000 (106) | [a], [b] ← 100,000,000 (108) | 1,000,000,000 (109) | 1012 → [a], [b] | 1015 → [a], [b] |
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Cardinal: billion, milliard, thousand million Ordinal: billionth, milliardth, thousand-millionth Multiplier: billionfold, milliardfold, thousand-millionfold Metric collective prefix: giga- Metric fractional prefix: nano- Number of years: giga-annum, gigayear |
← 1,000,000 (106) | [a], [b], [c] ← 1,000,000,000 (109) | 1012 | 1015 → [a], [b] | 1018 → [a], [b] |
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Cardinal: trillion, billion Ordinal: trillionth, billionth Multiplier: trillionfold, billionfold Metric collective prefix: tera- Metric fractional prefix: pico- |
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈbɪl.i.ənθ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]billionth (not comparable)
- The ordinal form of the number one billion.
Noun
[edit]billionth (plural billionths)
- The person or thing in the billionth position.
- One of a billion equal parts of a whole.
- 2020 April 19, Robin McKie, “Coronavirus: five months on, what scientists know about Covid-19”, in The Guardian[1]:
- That is an extraordinary achievement for a spiky ball of genetic material coated in fatty chemicals called lipids, and which measures 80 billionths of a metre in diameter. Humanity has been brought low by a very humble assailant.
Translations
[edit]billionth
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