Oneth

Quick meaning: Oneth is an adjective meaning (nonstandard) 'first', or other ordinal derivatives of 'one', such as hundred-and-oneth or minus-oneth.

Meaning

(nonstandard) 'first', or other ordinal derivatives of 'one', such as hundred-and-oneth or minus-oneth.

More Meanings

1. (nonstandard) Used at the end of algebraic expressions indicating ordinal position that end in 1, such as (k+1)ᵗʰ
2. (nonstandard) (in compounds with twenty-, thirty-, forty-, etc.) A fractional part of an integer ending in one
3. (in algebraic expressions) An ordinal value that is represented by an expression ending in 1 such as the (n + 1)th.

Example Sentences

If the billionth dog in the line is a Saint Bernard, then the last (billion-plus-oneth) dog in the line is a Saint Bernard.

The attempts, to a mathematician at any rate, are less comprehensible than the n plus oneth dimension, where n is any integer you please.

(see table 9.1 with row numbers four, ten, and sixteen terminating respectively at the eleventh, twenty-ninth and forty-oneth place) —A. R. Rajwade, 2001. Convex polyhedra with regularity conditions and Hilbert's third problem, p. 72.

About once a year, and generally after the six o'clock news (query for B.B.C. experts — is the six o'clock public more gullible?) a Very Big Noise has reported that, after the n — nth or n — plus — oneth year of the war, the health of the nation is yet again better than ever.

Word Forms

• oneths

Synonyms for oneth

Depending on context, synonyms include first.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include one-hundredth, hundredth, fifty-oneth, thirty-oneth, umptieth, eighty-oneth.

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