billionth

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
17
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈbɪl.i.ənθ/
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/ˈbɪl.i.ənθ/ · /ˈbɪl.jənθ/

Definition of billionth

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)The ordinal form of the number one billion.
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)The ordinal form of the number one billion.

noun

  1. The person or thing in the billionth position.
  2. One of a billion equal parts of a whole.
    “That is an extraordinary achievement for a spiky ball of genetic material coated in fatty chemicals called lipids, and which measures 80 billionths of a metre in diameter. Humanity has been brought low by a very humble assailant.”

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Etymology

From billion + -th (ordinal suffix).

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