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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The cardinal number equal to 10303.
  • noun Chiefly British The cardinal number equal to 10600.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the French enumeration, used also in the United States, the hundredth power of 1,000; in the United Kingdom, the hundredth power of 1,000,000.
  • noun In the French enumeration, used in the United States, the hundredth power of 1000: in England the hundredth power of 1,000,000.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun 10303.
  • noun 10600.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin centum, hundred; see dekm̥ in Indo-European roots + (m)illion.]

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