Million
One million (1,000,000) or one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001. The word is derived from the early Italian millione (milione in modern Italian), from mille, "thousand", plus the augmentative suffix -one.
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Some articles on million:
... the CIS countries, there are about 34.7 million people who speak dialects of Uzbek ... In Uzbekistan, 25 million people speak Uzbek as their native language ... There are about 1.2 million speakers in Tajikistan, 3 million in Afghanistan, 500,000 in Pakistan, 850,096 in Kyrgyzstan, 500,017 in Kazakhstan, and 450,333 in Turkmenistan ...
1988 from California real estate developer Larry Weinberg for $70 million ... The Blazers are valued at approximately $300 million according to a 2006 issue of Forbes. 2006, which he estimated would lose $100 million over the next three years ...
... from NASDAQ, as its market value had been below the minimum $35 million requirement for 10 consecutive trading days, and also did not meet NASDAQ's alternative requirements of a minimum stockholders ... it would sell substantially all of its assets to Rackable Systems for $25 million ... The sale, ultimately for $42.5 million, was finalized on May 11, 2009 at the same time, Rackable announced their adoption of "Silicon Graphics International" as their global name and brand ...
... from January 1999 (slightly less than 15 million) ... The population of Kazakhstan increased steadily from 6.1 million in the 1939 census to 16.5 million in the 1989 census ... indicate that the population continued to increase after 1989, peaking out at 17 million in 1993 and then declining to 15 million in the 1999 census ...
... census, the city had a population of 12.78 million ... of the entire Pearl River Delta Mega City built up area as high as 40 million including Shenzhen (10.36 million), Dongguan (8.22 million) and most parts of Foshan (7.19 million), Jiangmen (4.45 ...
More definitions of "million":
- (adj): (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units.
Synonyms: a million
Famous quotes containing the word million:
“A million people—manners free and superb—open
voices—hospitality—the most courageous and friendly young men,
City of hurried and sparkling waters! city of spires and masts!
City nested in bays! my city!”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“Our system of government, in spite of Vietnam, Cambodia, CIA, Watergate, is still the best system of government on earth. And the greatest resource of all are the 215 million Americans who still have within us the strength, the character, the intelligence, the experience, the patriotism, the idealism, the compassion, the sense of brotherhood on which we can rely in the future to restore the greatness to our country.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“The ancestral deed is thought and done,
And in a million Edens fall
A million Adams drowned in darkness,
For small is great and great is small,
And a blind seed all.”
—Edwin Muir (1887–1959)