Hundredth
['hʌndrədθ]
Definition
(noun.) position 100 in a countable series of things.
(adj.) the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order .
Editor: Pedro--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units.
(a.) Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth.
(n.) One of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or may be, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Centesimal.
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Examples
- Hundredth Psalm, Evening Hymn, hay Pitt? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We should go mad had we to endure the hundredth part of those daily pains which are meekly borne by many women. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I foresee, in spite of the penalties which it exacts from me, that I shall have to return to the opium for the hundredth time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- We shook hands for the hundredth time at least, and he ordered a young carter out of my way with the greatest indignation. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Count Greffi made his one hundredth point and with the handicap I was only at ninety-four. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Jos walked up to his friend, and put the question for the hundredth time during the past hour, Did she know where horses were to be had? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- At a height of twenty miles there is scarcely any air at all--not one hundredth part of the density of air at the surface of the sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The atom, to be sure, can no longer be consider ed the smallest unit of matter, as the mass of a β particle is approximately one seventeen-hundredths that of an atom of hydrogen. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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