English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "miljard" is 'n kardinale getal wat duisend miljoen (1,000,000,000) in die kortskaalstelsel of een miljoen miljoen (1,000,000,000,000) in die langskaalstelsel verteenwoordig. Met ander woorde, 'n miljard is 'n numeriese waarde wat 'n hoeveelheid gelykstaande aan 1 000 000 000 aandui.

Sentence Examples

  1. They were horribly deformed, and the skin swirled as if infected with a billion worms swimming in unison.
  2. The implications of more than six billion dead were too overwhelming, like contemplating the number of molecules in the ocean or the number of stars in the galaxies.
  3. But when you have eight billion people living together, a few of them are bound to be wired wrong.