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[ huhn-dridth, -dritth ] / ˈhʌn drɪdθ, -drɪtθ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR hundredth ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivenext after the ninety-ninth; being the ordinal number for 100. being one of 100 equal parts. nouna 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. Origin of hundredth1250–1300; Middle English. See hundred, -th2 Words nearby hundredthHundred Flowers, hundredfold, hundred-percenter, hundreds and thousands, hundred's place, hundredth, hundredweight, Hundred Years' War, Huneker, hung, Hungarian Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for hundredthTears 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 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
For the hundredth time she wondered what could have induced Nyoda to keep running away from them like that. The Campfire Girls Go Motoring|Hildegard G. Frey Could any truthful man write this and then mean that less than a hundredth part of the earth's surface was covered. The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science|William Denton A Grimsby lady who has just celebrated her hundredth birthday states that she has never visited a cinema theatre. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Oct. 3, 1917|Various That Sam Tremail loved her a hundredth part as much as he did, he did not believe possible. The Squire's Daughter|Silas K(itto) Hocking Vanna asked herself curiously for the hundredth time in the course of the last few days. A Question of Marriage|Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
British Dictionary definitions for hundredth
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) Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to hundredthcentenary, centennial, century, centuplicate |