gillion

名词 n. 数词 num.
中文释义
发音 gĭl'yən

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An unspecified large number (of). excessive,slang
    — At Guy's school there had been an outdoor pool, in use from April to October, a watery grave for a billion insects, or quite possibly a gillion or a squillion. The bright turquoise lining had wrinkled under the children's feet.
数词 num.
  1. A thousand million, proposed as an alternative to the (now little used) British milliard and the (ambiguous, in the UK) US billion. UK,rare
    — The internationally agreed symbol for 10^6 is M and this is the initial letter of million. Would it not be logical and convenient to turn this happy accident into a principle and use G, the internationally agreed symbol for 10^9, as the initial letter of the word for 1,000,000,000? That number would thus be called a gillion. Whether the g should be hard or soft is a matter of opinion. I incline to hard because of the derivation from giga.

词形变化

gillions plural

词源

词源 1
From gi(ga)- + -illion. Modelled after million, billion etc. Compare also jillion.
词源 2
From gi(ga)- + -illion. Modelled after million, billion etc. Compare also jillion.
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