hundredth
noun
- one of hundred equal parts of a whole; single part of object that has been divided into a hundred equal parts
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈhʌndɹə(d)θ/ / /ˈhʌndɹə(t)θ/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred + -th (ordinal suffix). The Old English term was hundtēontigoþa.
- The ordinal form of the number one hundred.
“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.”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred + -th (ordinal suffix). The Old English term was hundtēontigoþa.
- The person or thing in the hundredth position.
- One of a hundred equal parts of a whole.
“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.”