ten-millionth
English
| [a], [b] ← 10,000 | ← 1,000,000 (106) | 10,000,000 (107) | 100,000,000 (108) → [a], [b] | 1,000,000,000 (109) → [a], [b], [c] |
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| Cardinal: ten million, crore Ordinal: ten-millionth | ||||
Etymology
From ten million + -th.
Adjective
ten-millionth (not comparable)
- The ordinal form of the number ten million.
Noun
ten-millionth (plural ten-millionths)
- One of ten million equal parts of a whole.
- 1945 December 23, “Topics of The Times; Crucial Decimal Points”, 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 average size of the pores in this barrier was about four ten-millionths of an inch, that is to say, .0000004 inches.
- 2012 June 27, Thomas H. Maugh II, “Physicists produce highest man-made temperature: 7 trillion degrees”, in Los Angeles Times[2], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 9 January 2020:
- In the first ten-millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was composed of what is known as a quark-gluon plasma, but that immediately condensed into the matter we now know.
- 2018 November 3, Robin McKie, “The future of the kilo: a weighty matter”, in The Observer[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 November 2018:
- It [the metre] was originally deemed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole, before being replaced by a platinum bar held in Paris.