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so, the sum paid or payable therefor; as, the losses of the company this year amount to a million of dollars. To bear a loss, to make a loss good; also, to sustain a loss without sinking under it. -- To be at a loss, to be in a state of uncertainty.

A million times, a million of; as, megameter, a million meters; megafarad, a million farads; megohm, a million ohms.

A million coulombs.

One of the larger measures of force, amounting to one million dynes.

One of the larger measures of electrical capacity, amounting to one million farads; a macrofarad.

A million ergs; a megerg.

In the metric system, one million meters, or one thousand kilometers.

A million ampères.

One of the larger measures of electro-motive force, amounting to one million volts.

A million webers.

One of the larger measures of work, amounting to one million ergs; -- called also megalerg.

One of the larger measures of electrical resistance, amounting to one million ohms.

metric system of weights and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric. Common meter (Hymnol.), four iambic verses, or lines, making a stanz…

and milli-. The prefixes mega- and micro- are sometimes used to denote a multiple by one million, and the millionth part, respectively. See the words formed with these prefixes in the Vocabulary. For metric tables, see p. 1682.

One of the smaller measures of electrical currents; the millionth part of one ampère.

A measure of electrical quantity; the millionth part of one coulomb.

The millionth part of a farad.

The millionth part of an ohm.

The millionth part of a meter.

A measure of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter.