Hundredth
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈhʌndɹə(d)θ/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Hundredth is an adjective meaning The ordinal form of the number one hundred.
Meaning
The ordinal form of the number one hundred.
More Meanings
- The person or thing in the hundredth position.
- One of a hundred equal parts of a whole.
Example Sentences
This being Woodie Guthrie’s a hundredth birthday, in the centerpiece of this year’s South by Southwest Conference, I’m also gonna talk a little bit about my musical development and where it intersected with Woodie’s and why.
We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life spans of a couple octillion attoseconds. And an attosecond is an eternity compared with the lifetime of the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for one-thousandth of an attosecond before decaying.
Word Forms
- hundredths
Synonyms for hundredth
Depending on context, synonyms include ordinal, centesimal, one-hundredth.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include centesimal, one-hundredth, ordinal, thousandth, centennial, centenary.
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