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billion ['bɪljən] nstresses
gen. миллиард (At the last assessment it [the national debt] amounts to seven billion pounds (£7,000,000,000). • In America alone, people spent $170 billion on "direct marketing"–junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties–last year.); биллион; миллион миллионов; триллион (Brit.)
el. биллион (ам. 1 миллиард = 109; англ. 1 триллион = 1012); миллиард
engl. триллион амер. миллиард
jarg. ярд ($US MichaelBurov); арбуз ($ MichaelBurov)
mech.eng., obs. биллион (= 109 в США и 1012 в Англии)
oil пузырёк воздуха или газа в жидкости
uncom. биллион (слово, не использующееся в российской системе наименования чисел; в других системах наименования чисел соответствует числу, изображаемому как единица с: 1) 9 нулями (109, тысяча миллионов) в системе наименования чисел с короткой шкалой; 2) 12 нулями (1012, миллион миллионов) в системе наименования чисел с длинной шкалой wikipedia.org)
U.S. billion n
gen. миллиард
billion ['bɪljən] adj.
gen. миллиардный
Gruzovik, uncom. биллионный
media. 10sup9sup - в США; 10sup12sup - в Великобритании
obs., brit. триллионный (по т.н. "длинной шкале")
 English thesaurus
billion ['bɪljən] n
gen. a thousand million, a milliard (US, modern British & Australian, short scale: 109: At the last assessment it [the national debt] amounts to seven billion pounds (£7,000,000,000). • In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. wiktionary.org)
earth.sc. 10¹² (英国,德国)
el. 109
obs., brit. a million million, a trillion (dated, rare, British & Australian, long scale: 1012: n = 1,000,000,000,000, that is, = a billion, or the square of a million (1778) • There is a bill to be picked up for cleaning the former Soviet countries of £1 billion. By that I mean a British billion, because when I was little I was told that a billion was a million million and then the Americans said that it was a thousand million. Well, I am talking about a million million pounds worth of clean-up to be done. (2000 Ladyman, Stephen, Speech to the House of Commons wiktionary.org)
billion: 282 phrases in 53 subjects
Abbreviation1
Agriculture4
Aviation4
Banking4
Biology3
British usage, not spelling1
Business1
Caspian1
Construction1
Drilling1
Ecology2
Economy9
Electrochemistry3
Electronics2
Energy industry5
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development1
Figure of speech6
Finances15
Foreign exchange market1
General14
Geochronology3
Geology1
Gold mining10
Information technology5
Lasers7
Law2
Literature1
Makarov13
Mathematics4
Medical2
Metrology1
Military8
Name of organization10
Nanotechnology15
NATO2
Natural resourses and wildlife conservation1
Nuclear and fusion power1
Oil / petroleum10
Oil and gas67
Physics2
Programming2
Sakhalin7
Sakhalin R2
Sakhalin S2
Security systems2
Selective breeding1
Taxes1
Technology12
Telecommunications1
Tengiz3
Thermal engineering2
Water supply2
Weapons of mass destruction1