Trillion in a sentence as a noun

>.... [Apple] would have a value of more than $3 trillion by 2020.

Three trillion bytes is 30 trillion bits in that case, or 3x10E13 bits.

So the $14 trillion rolls over in perpetuity.

Trillion in a sentence as an adjective

In reality, $14 trillion is not really debt, since it is nonsensical to speak of debt that one owes oneself and can negate by printing paper.

In related news: scientists have discovered that an uncontrolled nuclear reaction over one hundred trillion times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb is releasing radiation of all known varieties, including lethal gamma radiation, and will result in the inevitable exposure of all of the earth's surface within the next twenty-four hours.

Trillion definitions

noun

a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole); "there were millions of flies"

See also: million billion zillion jillion gazillion

noun

the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros; "in England they call a quintillion a trillion"

noun

the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; "in England they call a trillion a billion"

See also: 1000000000000

adjective

one quintillion in Great Britain

adjective

one million million in the United States