hundredth
next after the ninety-ninth; being the ordinal number for 100.
being one of 100 equal parts.
a hundredth part, especially of one (1/100).
the hundredth member of a series.
Also called hundredth's place . (in decimal notation) the position of the second digit to the right of the decimal point.
Origin of hundredth
1Words Nearby hundredth
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use hundredth in a sentence
To mimic the trilobite’s ability, the team constructed a metalens, a type of flat lens made up of millions of differently sized rectangular nanopillars arranged like a cityscape — if skyscrapers were one two-hundredth the width of a human hair.
This camera lens can focus up close and far away at the same time | Anna Gibbs | April 26, 2022 | Science NewsYou can watch them consider lines dozens of moves into the future and evaluate positions to the hundredth of a pawn.
We Taught Computers To Play Chess — And Then They Left Us Behind | Oliver Roeder | January 25, 2022 | FiveThirtyEightPut together, tiers three to five total less than a couple hundredths of a percent of the population, so a very rarefied group.
Tears have been shed when our adult brains best his for the hundredth time at The Memory Game.
The modern Iraqi state is less than a century old but it may not survive to mark its hundredth birthday.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is unleashing its three-hundredth episode tonight on CBS.
The Greatest ‘CSI: Crime Scene Investigation’ Episodes | Kelsey Meany | October 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOf course, when growth's anemic, you hate to lose even a hundredth of a percentage point.
Are they the same shape and size, down to the nearest hundredth millimeter?
All the eight planets added together only make one-seven-hundredth part of his weight.
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordIt thus appears that the mass of all the planets is about one seven hundredth that of the sun.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate ShalerAnd yet the Alps are little more than half the hight of the Andes, and not more than a hundredth part of their mass.
Gospel Philosophy | J. H. WardTherefore its channel is usually not a hundredth part as wide as the gorge or valley in which it lies.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate ShalerA few days ago a great festival took place at Mannheim, on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of Beethovens birth.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste Tchaikovsky
British Dictionary definitions for hundredth
/ (ˈhʌndrədθ) /
(usually prenominal)
being the ordinal number of 100 in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc
(as noun): the hundredth in line
one of 100 approximately equal parts of something
(as modifier): a hundredth part
one of 100 equal divisions of a particular scientific quantity: centimetre Related prefix: centi-
the fraction equal to one divided by 100 (1/100)
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse