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Home Dictionary Name: billionVerbarMilliard
A thousand millions usually called billion in the United States See Billion...
Begohm
A unit of resistance equal to one billion ohms or one thousand megohms...
Billion
According to the French and American method of numeration a thousand millions or 1000000000 according to the English method a million millions or 1000000000000 See Numeration...
main sequence
That region on a two dimensional graph of luminosity versus temperature for stars the Herzsprung Russel diagram which runs from high temperature and high luminosity to low temperature and low luminosity in which most of the stars plotted as points on the diagram are found A normal star such as the earths sun will spend most of its time over billions of years within this region of temperature and luminosity as it progressively converts more of its original hydrogen into heavier elements After the hydrogen is consumed a star may become a red giant or evolve into other types of star not within the main sequence region...
Metric system
A system of weights and measures originating in France the use of which is required by law in many countries and permitted in many others including the United States the system is also called by its French name Le Systegraveme International de Uniteacutes abbreviated SI The principal unit of length is the meter see Meter From this are formed the are the liter the stere the gram etc These units and others derived from them are divided decimally and larger units are formed from multiples by 10 100 1000 and 10000 The successive multiplies are designated by the prefixes deka formerly deca hecto kilo and myria seldom used successive parts by deci centi and milli The prefixes mega and micro are used to denote a multiple by one million and the millionth part respectively giga and nano denote multiples of one billion 1000000000 and one billionth respectively The prefix for one trillion 1012 is tera and for one trillionth 10 12 is pico for one quintillion 1015 peta and for 10 15 one quintillion...
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