gillion
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gillion
- /ˈɡɪljən/
- /ˈd͡ʒɪljən/
Sounds like jillion, Gillian, Jillian stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn · Rhymes with -ɪljən
Where it comes from
From gi(ga)- + -illion. Modelled after million, billion etc. Compare also jillion.
number
- A thousand million, proposed as an alternative to the (now little used) British milliard and the (ambiguous, in the UK) US billion. 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
noun gillions
- An unspecified large number (of). 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.
