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Dictionary: mil·lion   (mĭl'yən) pronunciation
 
n., pl. million or -lions.
  1. The cardinal number equal to 106.
  2. A million monetary units, such as dollars: made a million in the stock market.
  3. An indefinitely large number. Often used in the plural: millions of bicycles on the road.
  4. The common people; the masses. Often used in the plural: entertainment for the millions.

[Middle English, from Old French milion, probably from Old Italian milione, augmentative of mille, thousand, from Latin mīlle.]

million mil'lion adj.
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One thousand times one thousand, which is 1, followed by six zeros, or 10 to the 6th power. See space/time.

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noun

    An indeterminately great amount or number. jillion, multiplicity, ream, trillion. Informal bushel, gob1 (often used in plural), heap (often used in plural), load (often used in plural), lot, oodles, passel, peck2, scad (often used in plural), slew, wad, zillion. See big/small/amount.

 
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1 000 thousand = 1 000 000 = 106. See thousand for scales. Unlike the related terms of higher value (billion et seq.), this term has an unambiguous meaning, so can be used readily, even in a scientific context. Million also has the advantage of having the same initial letter as its SI equivalent prefix, namely mega- (M-) as in ‘megabytes’ and ‘megabucks’. However, there is the confusion that, from Latin, M also means thousand, and has often been used so in various business and other writing.

Besides the abbreviation mn., and the metric M, the construct mm is often used in technical business writing in North America to mean a million, e.g. mm.c.f. = 106 ft-3; see mm-.

 
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IN BRIEF: One thousand thousands. Also: A very great number.

pronunciation I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars. — Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973).

Tutor's tip: After the "milline" (an advertisement which runs in a publication selling more than 1,000,000 copies) ran in the Times, sales increased by one "million" (a thousand thousands) dollars.

 
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List of numbers - Integers

100000 1000000 10000000

Cardinal One million
Ordinal One millionth
Roman numeral M
Factorization 26 · 56
Binary 11110100001001000000
Hexadecimal F4240

One million (1,000,000) or one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001. The name is derived from Italian, where mille was 1,000, and 1,000,000 became milione, "a large thousand"[citation needed].

In scientific notation, it is written as 1×106 or just 106.[1] Physical quantities can also be expressed using the SI prefix mega, when dealing with SI units. For example, 1 megawatt equals 1,000,000 watts.

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.

The million is sometimes used in the English language as a metaphor for a very large number, as in "Never in a million years" and "You're one in a million", or a hyperbole, as in "I've walked a million miles".

Il Milione is the title of Marco Polo's narration of his travel to China. The name is supposed to come from Polo's nickname after his tales of riches and multitudes[citation needed].

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Visualizing one million

Although it is often stressed that counting to precisely a million would be an exceedingly tedius task due to the time and concentration required, there are many ways to bring the number "down to size" in approximate quantities, ignoring irregularities or packing effects.

  • Information: Not counting spaces, the text on 136 pages of an Encyclopedia Britannica, or 600 pages of pulp paperback fiction contains approximately one million characters.
  • Length: A typical car tire might rotate a million times in a 1,200 mile trip, while the engine would do several times that number of revolutions.
  • Area: A square a thousand objects or units on a side contains a million such objects or square units, so a million holes might be found in less than three square yards of window screen, or similarly, in about one half square foot (400-500 cm2) of bed sheet cloth.
  • Volume: The cube root of one million is only one hundred, so a million objects or cubic units is contained in a cube only a hundred objects or linear units on a side. A million grains of table salt or granulated sugar occupies only about 64 ml, slightly over a quarter of a cup, the volume of a cube one hundred grains on a side.
  • Landscape: A pyramidal shaped hill 600 feet wide at the base and 100 feet high would weigh about a million tons.

See also

Selected 7-digit numbers (1,000,000 - 9,999,999)

  • 1,000,003 - Smallest 7 digit prime number
  • 1,046,527 - Carol number
  • 1,048,576 = 220 (power of two), 2,116-gonal number, an 8,740-gonal number and a 174,764-gonal number, the number of bytes in a mebibyte, the number of kibibytes in a gibibyte, and so on. Also the most rows that Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Office 2007) can accept in a single worksheet.
  • 1,048,976 - Leyland number
  • 1,050,623 - Kynea number
  • 1,058,576 - Leyland number
  • 1,084,051 - Keith number
  • 1,089,270 - harmonic divisor number
  • 1,136,689 - Pell number, Markov number
  • 1,234,567 - Smarandache consecutive number (base 10 digits are in numerical order)
  • 1,278,818 - Markov number
  • 1,346,269 - Fibonacci number, Markov number
  • 1,421,280 - harmonic divisor number
  • 1,441,440 - colossally abundant number
  • 1,441,889 - Markov number
  • 1,539,720 - harmonic divisor number
  • 1,563,372 - Wedderburn-Etherington number
  • 1,594,323 = 313
  • 1,596,520 - Leyland number
  • 1,647,086 - Leyland number
  • 1,679,616 = 68
  • 1,686,049 - Markov number
  • 1,741,725 - equal to the sum of the seventh power of its digits
  • 1,771,561 = 116 = 1213 = 13312, also, Commander Spock's estimate for the tribble population in the Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles"
  • 1,941,760 - Leyland number
  • 1,953,125 = 59
  • 2,012,174 - Leyland number
  • 2,012,674 - Markov number
  • 2,097,152 = 221, power of two
  • 2,097,593 - prime Leyland number
  • 2,124,679 - Wolstenholme prime
  • 2,178,309 - Fibonacci number
  • 2,356,779 - Motzkin number
  • 2,423,525 - Markov number
  • 2,674,440 - Catalan number
  • 2,744,210 - Pell number
  • 2,796,203 - Wagstaff prime
  • 2,922,509 - Markov number
  • 3,263,442 - product of the first five terms of Sylvester's sequence
  • 3,263,443 - sixth term of Sylvester's sequence
  • 3,276,509 - Markov number
  • 3,301,819 - alternating factorial
  • 3,524,578 - Fibonacci number, Markov number
  • 3,626,149 - Wedderburn-Etherington number
  • 3,628,800 = 10!
  • 4,037,913 - sum of the first ten factorials
  • 4,190,207 - Carol number
  • 4,194,304 = 222, power of two
  • 4,194,788 - Leyland number
  • 4,198,399 - Kynea number
  • 4,208,945 - Leyland number
  • 4,210,818 - equal to the sum of the seventh powers of its digits
  • 4,213,597 - Bell number
  • 4,400,489 - Markov number
  • 4,782,969 = 314
  • 4,785,713 - Leyland number
  • 4,826,809 = 136
  • 5,134,240 - the largest number that cannot be expressed as the sum of distinct fourth powers
  • 5,702,887 - Fibonacci number
  • 5,764,801 = 78
  • 6,536,382 - Motzkin number
  • 6,625,109 - Pell number, Markov number
  • 7,453,378 - Markov number
  • 7,861,953 - Leyland number
  • 7,913,837 - Keith number
  • 8,000,000 - Used to represent infinity in Japanese mythology
  • 8,388,608 = 223, power of two
  • 8,389,137 - Leyland number
  • 8,399,329 - Markov number
  • 8,436,379 - Wedderburn-Etherington number
  • 8,675,309 - A hit song for Tommy Tutone (also a twin prime)
  • 8,675,311 - A twin prime
  • 8,946,176 - self-descriptive number in base 8
  • 9,227,465 - Fibonacci number, Markov number
  • 9,369,319 - Newman-Shanks-Williams prime
  • 9,647,009 - Markov number
  • 9,694,845 - Catalan number
  • 9,765,625 = 510
  • 9,800,817 - equal to the sum of the seventh powers of its digits
  • 9,865,625 - Leyland number
  • 9,926,315 - equal to the sum of the seventh powers of its digits
  • 9,999,991 - Largest 7 digit prime number

References

  1. ^ Wells, D. The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers London: Penguin Group. (1987): 185. "1,000,000 = 106"



 
Translations: Million
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Dansk (Danish)
num. - million
n. - million

Nederlands (Dutch)
miljoen

Français (French)
n. - million
adj. - million

Deutsch (German)
n. - Million
adj. - Millionen-

Ελληνική (Greek)
n., -
adj. - εκατομμύριο

Italiano (Italian)
milione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - milhão (m)
adj. - que perfaz ou consiste em milhão

Русский (Russian)
миллион

Español (Spanish)
n. - millón
adj. - millón o millones de

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - miljon
adj. - miljon-

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
百万, 百万个, 无数

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
num. - 百萬, 百萬個
n. - 百萬, 無數

한국어 (Korean)
num. - 100만
n. - 매우 많은 수의 사람

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 100万, 多数, ミリオン
adj. - 100万の, 多数の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مليون (صفه) مليون‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מיליון‬


 
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