hundredth

From Middle English hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred +‎ -th (ordinal suffix). The Old English term was hundtēontigoþa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʌndɹə(d)θ/, /ˈhʌndɹə(t)θ/
• enPR: hŭn′drədth, hŭn′drətth

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• Rhymes: -ʌndɹədθ
• Hyphenation: hun‧dredth

hundredth (not comparable)

2. The ordinal form of the number one hundred.

   Synonyms: 100th, 100^th

   • 2012 March 15, Bruce Springsteen, keynote speech, South by Southwest Music Conference:

     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.

hundredth (plural hundredths)

1. The person or thing in the hundredth position.
2. One of a hundred equal parts of a whole.
   • 2023 October 9, Dennis Overbye, “The Science Nobel Winners Were Short and Fast”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 October 2023:

     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.

• one-hundredth