trillion

IPA: trˈɪɫjʌn

(basketball, slang) A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats.

Examples of "trillion" in Sentences

The population of the town is 1 trillion.
The amount of energy is in the trillion of watts.
The entire GDP of the USA in 2006 was 13 trillion.
But the scale on the vertical axis is in Trillions.
The term trillion makes all of this somewhat hard to grasp.
But the population of the world is not 6 'trillion' yet is it
Big data will help drive IT spending to $3.8 trillion in 2014.
The estimated mass of the cluster is 500 trillion solar masses.
I've read that mathematicians do not even use the term trillion!
It is theorized to have a mass 500 trillion times the mass of the Sun.
The company keeps its billion, the taxpayer gets stuck paying the trillion.
Let the number of these small volumes in the room be large, say a trillion.
I would have not known this, but I quickly learned it by looking up the term trillion in Wolfram|Alpha.
At that point, the word trillion was rarely mentioned in the news and resided more in the imagination of children, alongside zillions and gazillions, as an expression of something on an enormous scale.
If the risk of sea level rise, species extinctions, disrupted agriculture, new infrastructure investments required to adapt to catastrophic climate change, etc can be valued at $20 trillion in "net present value" (NPV ... value today, in today's dollars), then an investment of $trillion or $4 trillion to obviate that risk is a well-spent insurance policy.