Anyone can agree to arbitrate a disagreement or legal issue, but the key word is agree. Simply because one of the parties in a dispute desires to enter into arbitration does not take away another party's right to go to court.
Part of the Nanotechnology glossary: (This definition follows U.S. usage in which a billion is a thousand million and a trillion is a 1 followed by 12 zeros.). A nanosecond (ns or nsec) is one billionth (10 -9) of a second and is a common measurement of read or write access time to random access memory (RAM).
1,000,000,000 (one billion, short scale; one thousand million or milliard, yard, long scale) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001. One billion can also be written as b or bn. In scientific notation, it is written as 1 Ã 10 9. The metric prefix giga indicates 1,000,000,000 times the base unit. Its symbol is G. One billion years may be called eon/aeon in astronomy or geology. Previously in British English (but not in American English), the word billion referred exclusively to a million millions (1,000,000,000,000).