hundredth

[ huhn-dridth, -dritth ]

/ ˈhʌn drɪdθ, -drɪtθ /

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adjective

next after the ninety-ninth; being the ordinal number for 100.

being one of 100 equal parts.

noun

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.

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Origin of hundredth

1250–1300; Middle English. See hundred, -th²

Words nearby hundredth

Hundred Flowers, hundredfold, hundred-percenter, hundreds and thousands, hundred's place, hundredth, hundredweight, Hundred Years' War, Huneker, hung, Hungarian

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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 News
You 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|FiveThirtyEight
Put together, tiers three to five total less than a couple hundredths of a percent of the population, so a very rarefied group.
So You Think You’re “Elite”|mmirhashem|January 8, 2022|Outside Online
Tears have been shed when our adult brains best his for the hundredth time at The Memory Game.
My Loser Kid Should Get a Trophy|Brandy Zadrozny|August 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The modern Iraqi state is less than a century old but it may not survive to mark its hundredth birthday.
Vets Pick the Best Books About Iraq|The Daily Beast|July 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
Of course, when growth's anemic, you hate to lose even a hundredth of a percentage point.
How to Think About the Minimum Wage|Megan McArdle|February 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Are they the same shape and size, down to the nearest hundredth millimeter?
The New Child-Testing Craze|Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman|February 17, 2010|DAILY BEAST
All the eight planets added together only make one-seven-hundredth part of his weight.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
It 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 Shaler
And 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. Ward
Therefore 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 Shaler
A few days ago a great festival took place at Mannheim, on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of Beethovens birth.
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British Dictionary definitions for hundredth

hundredth

/ (ˈhʌndrədθ) /

adjective

(usually prenominal)

being the ordinal number of 100 in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc
(as noun)the hundredth in line

noun

one of 100 approximately equal parts of something
(as modifier)a hundredth part

one of 100 equal divisions of a particular scientific quantitycentimetre Related prefix: centi-

the fraction equal to one divided by 100 (1/100)

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hundredth

Origin of hundredth

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