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millional

Pronunciation: /ˈmɪl.jə.nəl/
Definition:
1. The ordinal number symbol: 1,000,000.
2. The position in a sequence following the nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-ninth element; representing a million-unit division.
3. Pertaining to an extremely fine fraction, one part in a million, used in high-precision contexts.
4. Denoting an exceptionally rare or minuscule probability, proportion, or measurement increment.

Significance:
• It defines the millionth (millional) position with systematic regularity and clarity.
• It emphasizes extreme precision, minute probabilities, and large-scale population statistics.
• It identifies parts-per-million (ppm) measurements, lottery odds, and rare statistical percentiles.
• It avoids irregular and ambiguous pronunciations associated with Germanic numeric forms.
• It simplifies expressions of extreme precision and rarity in scientific, statistical, and demographic contexts.
• It improves precision in chemistry, engineering, epidemiology, and probability theory involving one-in-a-million measures.
• It replaces Scandinavian-Germanic, Non-American, foreign, and Anglo-Saxon terms, similar to replacing "millionth" with a consistent Latinized ordinal form.
Ordinal number: millional (1,000,000th)
Cardinal number: million (1,000,000)
Examples:
• "The sensor can detect contaminants at a concentration of a few millional parts."
• "Money prize that specific lottery combination is a millional chance event."
• "Adjust the calibration to the millional degree for the experiment to succeed."
• "She (illa) was the one millional visitor to the internet site, winning the grand prize."
• "The alloy's purity is certified to within five (quinto) millional units of the standard."
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Millionaire Dropout

Someone with a dropout degree that became a millionaire.
The most famous millionaire dropouts with no degree are Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Josh King Madrid (JetSetFly), Steve Jobs and Travis Kalanick
by piaheza September 29, 2022
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like a million diamonds

How the sunlight makes a lake look, shimmery, brilliant.
When the 10 year old saw the big lake for the 1st time, he said 'It looks like a million diamonds! He was quite impressed! & had never heard the phrase like a million diamonds before.
by Starchylde May 25, 2016
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Slumdog Dollar Menu Millionaire

noun,

An Indian person who eats at McDonalds.
1: "What it do nephew?"

2: "Ordering a Big Mac."

1: "You are a Slumdog Dollar Menu Millionaire.

2: "That's racist. I'm just playin'. Up top!"
by KevinEaton August 3, 2012
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One Million Moms

An extremist right-wing group of angry soccer moms dedicated to brainwashing their children and censoring everything that doesn't fall in line with their beliefs. They actually only have about 140,000 members.
Mike: "One Million Moms just launched another campaign against gay people in television shows."
John: "What else is new?"
by anon12093 February 10, 2014
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ten cent millionaire

Someone who drives a Caddy, but cannot make the payments. Someone who has a new Lexus but lives in a trailor park. Someone who wears fashionable labels, but cannot afford lunch. Someone who just got their paycheck and is spending it to impress rather than paying their bills.
Example: Wow, two thousand dollar rims on a four hundred dollar car, he must be a "ten cent millionaire"
by sleeping grinch February 9, 2010
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Big Million

Did you see that play? That’s big million.
by TakashiUmi June 6, 2018
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