The meaning of the word million is common to the short scale and long scale numbering systems, unlike the larger numbers, which have different names in the two systems. A very great number of times A million has 6 zeros, while a billion has 9 zeros, and a trillion has 12 zeros
Big numbers like vigintillion have as many as 63 zeros following the digit one. The three dutch paintings fetched a million (definition of million from the cambridge academic content dictionary © cambridge university press)
How to use million in a sentence. A very large amount or number often plural A million or one million is the number 1,000,000 Up to five million people a year visit the county
Profits for 1999 topped £100 million. A million light years away I can see a million under the microscope. Joining the million air team marks the beginning of an extraordinary journey in the world of aviation
The amount of a thousand thousand units of money, as pounds, dollars, or francs