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billion ['bɪljən] n
gen. 亿万; 十亿; 十亿 109; 美; 1012; 英; 美,法 ; 英,德 ; 无数; IO?[美法用法]; 1012 [英德用法]
agric. 十亿 美、法; 万亿
anim.husb. 十亿 法、美; 万亿 英、德; 无数 英、德
busin. 美、法 十亿; 英、德 万亿;
earth.sc. 十亿 美国,法国; 万亿; 十亿 10⁹
econ. 10 亿; 万亿; 十亿
el. 千兆; 兆兆; 10⁹ 美、法计数制
math. 十亿 美、法 ,万亿 英、德
met. 十亿 =109,美,法; 万亿 (= 1012,英,德); 十亿 (美)
multimed. 美国 十亿 10⁹; 英国 万亿 (10¹²)
oil 美国 十亿; 英国 万亿; 美、法国 十亿; 英、德国 万亿
shipb. 十亿 美国; 万亿 英国
tech. (10¹²); 万亿 (英国); 十亿 (美国)
telecom., amer. 十亿 (= 10⁹)
telecom., brit. 万亿 (= 10¹²)
 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: 110 phrases in 29 subjects
Agriculture2
Air defense1
Animal husbandry3
Automobiles3
Aviation2
Biology2
Business4
Chemistry1
China2
Desert science1
Earth sciences5
Ecology2
Economy4
Electronics15
Explosives and Explosive Ordnance Disposal1
General9
Geology2
Information technology1
International trade1
Mining7
Name of organization7
Nautical1
Oil / petroleum16
Plastics1
Securities1
Space2
Technology12
United Nations1
Water resources1