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"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"en:Basketball"
],
"glosses": [
"A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats."
],
"links": [
[
"basketball",
"basketball"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(basketball, slang) A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"topics": [
"ball-games",
"basketball",
"games",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈtɹɪljən/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪljən"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-trillion.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/82/En-us-trillion.ogg/En-us-trillion.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/En-us-trillion.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-trillion.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9d/En-au-trillion.ogg/En-au-trillion.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/En-au-trillion.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
{
"enpr": "trĭl'yən"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Harvey Pollack",
"trillion"
],
"word": "trillion"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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