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According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced

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According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the third power, or the number represented by a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.

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• ANNEX
  to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to 1. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson. 2. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• NUMBERFUL
  Numerous.
• TWELVEPENNY
  , Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
  The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
• TWELVEMO
  See DUODECIMO
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• NOTATION
  1. The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters. 2. Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp., the system
• ACCORDANCY
  Accordance. Paley.
• CONTINENTAL GLACIER
  A broad ice sheet resting on a plain or plateau and spreading outward from a central névé, or region of accumulation.
• TWELVE
  One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen. Twelve- men's morris. See the Note under Morris. -- Twelve Tables. See under Table. (more info) twelf, twelef, twilif, OS. twelif, D. twaalf, G. zwölf, OHG. zwelif, Icel. t, Sw. tolf, Dan.
• ACCORDANTLY
  In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
• UNITIVE
  Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• UNITARIANISM
  The doctrines of Unitarians.
• ANNEXATION
  1. The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture.
• ACCORDINGLY
  1. Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak. 2. In natural sequence; consequently; so. Syn. -- Consequently; therefore; wherefore; hence; so. -- Accordingly, Consequently, indicate
• INCONTINENT
  Unable to restrain natural evacuations. (more info) 1. Not continent; uncontrolled; not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd.
• TRIBUNICIAN; TRIBUNITIAL; TRIBUNITIAN
  Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority. Dryden. A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong. Hare.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.