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one-hundredth

one-hundredth adjective: the ordinal form of the number one hundred.

Adjective

one-hundredth (not comparable)

  1. The ordinal form of the number one hundred.
    • The recurrence of this anniversary, for the one-hundredth time, rouses the memory and enforces the example.1877, W. E. Arthur, “The American Age Contrasted”, in Frederick Saunders, editor, Our National Centennial Jubilee. Orations, Addresses and Poems Delivered on the Fourth of July, 1876. In the Several...
    • He had said, “Sorry,” for the one-hundredth time for the whiskey shower. But something about the one-hundredth time mixed with the softness of his voice, the insincerity behind it and the memory of a lighter dancing around my face, and rape, made me so angry that I threw the bottle of champagne...2006, Judy C. Andrews, An Ocean of Jewels, The Harlem Writers Guild Press, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 190
    Synonyms:
    hundredth

Noun

one-hundredth (plural one-hundredths)

  1. The hundredth part of the number one, represented by the second decimal digit in a percentage.
    • ten and two one-hundredths percent = 10.02%
    • one one-hundredth of a percent = 0.01%

Examples of one-hundredth in a sentence

  • He had said, “Sorry,” for the one-hundredth time for the whiskey shower.2006, Judy C. Andrews, An Ocean of Jewels, The Harlem Writers Guild Press, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 190:
  • The one-hundredth year corresponds to a.d. 96.2007, Brant A[nderson] Gardner, “4 Nephi Part 2: Commentary”, in Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of...

Synonyms of one-hundredth

Forms of one-hundredth

pluralone-hundredths

Questions about one-hundredth

What does one-hundredth mean?
One-hundredth means the ordinal form of the number one hundred.
How do you use one-hundredth in a sentence?
He had said, “Sorry,” for the one-hundredth time for the whiskey shower.
What part of speech is one-hundredth?
One-hundredth can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near one-hundredth in the dictionary

  1. one-hundred-millionth
  2. one-hundred-millionths
  3. one-hundred-thousandth
  4. one-hundred-year storm
  5. one-hundred-year storms
  6. one-hundredth
  7. one-hundredths
  8. one-itis
  9. one-legged
  10. one-leggeds
  11. one-line skies

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