billion
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/ˈbɪljən/
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/ˈbɪljən/
The number 1,000,000,000 (one thousand million)
The company made over a billion dollars in profit last year.
該公司去年利潤超過十億美元。
A very large number of things
There are billions of stars in our galaxy.
我們的銀河系中有數十億顆恆星。
The number 1,000,000,000,000 (one million million)
In some countries, a billion means one million million.
在一些國家,billion 意味著一兆。