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1,000,000 The  lead section of this article  may need to be rewritten . "One million" redirects here. For other uses, see  One million (disambiguation) . 1,000,000  ( one million ), or one  thousand  thousand, is the  natural number  following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001. The word is derived from the early  Italian   millione  ( milione  in modern Italian), from  mille , " thousand ", plus the  augmentative  suffix  -one . [1]  It is commonly abbreviated as  m [2] [3] [4]  (not to be confused with the  metric prefix  for  1×10 −3 ) or  M [5] [6]  and  MM  ("thousand thousands", from Latin "Mille"; not to be confused with the  Roman numeral  MM = 2,000),  mm , or  mn  in financial contexts. [7] [ better source needed ] ← 999999 1000000 1000001 → List of numbers  —  Integers ←   10 0   10 1   10 2 ...