hundredth

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
17
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈhʌndɹə(d)θ/
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/ˈhʌndɹə(d)θ/ · /ˈhʌndɹə(t)θ/

Definition of hundredth

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)The ordinal form of the number one hundred.
    “This being Woodie Guthrie’s a hundredth birthday, in the centerpiece of this year’s South by Southwest Conference, I’m also gonna talk a little bit about my musical development and where it intersected with Woodie’s and why.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)The ordinal form of the number one hundred.
    “This being Woodie Guthrie’s a hundredth birthday, in the centerpiece of this year’s South by Southwest Conference, I’m also gonna talk a little bit about my musical development and where it intersected with Woodie’s and why.”

noun

  1. The person or thing in the hundredth position.
  2. One of a hundred equal parts of a whole.
    “We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life spans of a couple octillion attoseconds. And an attosecond is an eternity compared with the lifetime of the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for one-thousandth of an attosecond before decaying.”

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Etymology

From Middle English hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred + -th (ordinal suffix). The Old English term was hundtēontigoþa.

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