hundred-millionth
English
| [a], [b] ← 100,000 | ← 10,000,000 (107) | 100,000,000 (108) | 1,000,000,000 (109) → [a], [b], [c] | |
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| Cardinal: hundred million, one hundred million Ordinal: hundred-millionth, one-hundred-millionth | ||||
Etymology
From hundred million + -th.
Adjective
hundred-millionth (not comparable)
- The ordinal form of the number one hundred million.
- Synonym: one-hundred-millionth
Noun
hundred-millionth (plural hundred-millionths)
- One of one hundred million equal parts of a whole.
- Synonym: one-hundred-millionth
- 1925 June 14, Benjamin Harrow, “Atoms That Make the World; CONCERNING THE NATURE OF THINGS. By Sir William Bragg, F.R.S. […]”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 November 2025:
- The newer methods tell us quite definitely, for example, that the diameter of an atom of diamond (which. chemically speaking, happens to be but one of a number of forms of carbon) is 1.54 hundred-millionths of a centimeter, the centimeter being less than one-half inch.
- 1996 February 8, Charles Perry, “Measured Words”, in Los Angeles Times[2], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 November 2025:
- Old weighing instruments couldn’t even measure a mite (1/8750 ounce), much less a blanc, which would have been about a hundred-millionth of an ounce.
- 2010 May 10, “It’s crystal clear that volcanic ash is like cotton candy”, in The Washington Post[3], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 November 2025:
- Imagine a beautiful stack of oranges (a stack that goes on forever and whose units are a couple hundred-millionths the size of a piece of fruit) and you'll get a feel for a crystal's internal structure.