hundred million

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hundred million

1. The number 100,000,000.
   • Dr. A[braham] M. Zarem has devised the fastest camera shutter on record. It can operate at a rate of a hundred million exposures a second, which is 25,000 times faster than the shutter used on the fastest commercial motion- picture camera.1948 May 16, “Fastest Shutter; Hundred Million Film Exposures A Second Now Possible”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17...
   • Some hundred million women wear diamonds, while millions of others keep them in safe-deposit boxes or strongboxes as family heirlooms.1982 February, Edward Jay Epstein, “Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?”, in William Whitworth, editor, The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived...