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hundredth /ˈhʌndrədθ /ordinal number1Constituting number one hundred in a sequence; 100th: her hundredth birthday the hundredth anniversary of his birth...- A century after the Revolution of 1688, there was thought of celebrating its hundredth anniversary.
- His historical work of 1898 was also a piece of symbolism, deliberately timed to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the publication of the first book in vernacular Ukrainian.
- Beatrice was very pleased to reach her hundredth birthday and make her local paper.
2Each of one hundred equal parts into which something is or may be divided: hundredths of a second determine the winners and losers...- These new-generation chemicals are 10 times more effective than earlier compounds at only a hundredth the cost.
- We are trying to do biology knowing perhaps only a tenth, or one hundredth, of our species.
- Small things can shave a few hundredths from your time, and be the difference between a final and not, a medal and not — a gold and not.
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