(US, modern British & Australian, short scale) a thousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,000^2): 1 followed by nine zeros, 10⁹; a milliard

plural of billion

An indefinite elite which is supposedly pulling strings to amass wealth and destroy regular people’s lives.

(geology) The period of time from 1.8 Gya to 800 Mya, on Earth, lying in the middle of the Proterozoic.

Having more than 1,000,000,000; in the billion range. / (in the old numbering system, chiefly Britain), more than 1,000,000,000,000; in the old billion range.

(computer security) A type of denial-of-service attack which is aimed at parsers of XML documents.

plural of billion laughs attack

A neighborhood of South Side, Downtown, Manhattan, New York county, New York City, New York state, United States; a district with superslim residential supertall towers clustered around West 57th Street off the south end of Central Park.

Somebody whose wealth is greater than one billion (10⁹) dollars, or other currency.

A billion times so