one-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 one hundred million + -th.
Adjective
one-hundred-millionth (not comparable)
- The ordinal form of the number one hundred million.
- Synonym: hundred-millionth
Noun
one-hundred-millionth (plural one-hundred-millionths)
- One of one hundred million equal parts of a whole.
- Synonym: hundred-millionth
- 1976 February 2, Barry Commoner, “Energy-1”, in The New Yorker[1], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 November 2025:
- In “The Anatomy of Science,” published in 1926, Gilbert N. Lewis, a brilliantly iconoclastic chemist, who liked to be accurate about such things, computed the actual probability that an object weighing one one-hundred-millionth of a gram, if looked at once a second, will ever be found one ten-millionth of a centimetre above a supporting surface.
- 1989 February 11, Edmund L. Andrews, “atents; Developing Machinery the Size of a Molecule”, in The New York Times[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015:
- The invention consists of a thin film covered with regularly spaced holes measuring about 100 angstroms in diameter, or about one one-hundred millionth of a meter.
- 1996 October 13, Robert Lee Hotz, “Deciphering the Miracles of the Mind”, in Los Angeles Times[3], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 November 2025:
- Processing speed of a silicon chip: one-hundred-millionth of a second