oneth
/ˈwʌnθ/
oneth adjective: 'first', or other ordinal derivatives of 'one', such as hundred-and-oneth or minus-oneth.
Adjective
oneth (not comparable)
- 'first', or other ordinal derivatives of 'one', such as hundred-and-oneth or minus-oneth
- Soon after the first law of thermodynamics was postulated in the mid nineteenth century, it was realized how the law presupposed a more elementary law, which we now call the zeroth law ... But scientists soon realized how even the zeroth law was too advanced, since it presupposed a yet more...
- (see table 9.1 with row numbers four, ten, and sixteen terminating respectively at the eleventh, twenty-ninth and forty-oneth place) —A. R. Rajwade, 2001. Convex polyhedra with regularity conditions and Hilbert's third problem, p. 72.
- Used at the end of algebraic expressions indicating ordinal position that end in 1, such as (k+1)ᵗʰ
- About once a year, and generally after the six o'clock news (query for B.B.C. experts — is the six o'clock public more gullible?) a Very Big Noise has reported that, after the n — nth or n — plus — oneth year of the war, the health of the nation is yet again better than ever.1945, Feed & Farm Supplies - Volume 31, page 240
- The attempts, to a mathematician at any rate, are less comprehensible than the n plus oneth dimension, where n is any integer you please.1945, Eric Temple Bell, Numerology: The Magic of Numbers, page 99
Noun
oneth (plural oneths)
- (in compounds with twenty-, thirty-, forty-, etc.) A fractional part of an integer ending in one
- about twenty thirty-oneths in value of such sales being made as hereinafter mentioned to a syndicate of persons in the United Kingdom, about seven thirty-oneths to residents in the United States, and about four thirty-oneths to residents in other European countries and the colonies. —"Brooke & Co....
- An ordinal value that is represented by an expression ending in 1 such as the (n + 1)th.
- And then it was found that Dr. Whewell, or, as others asserted, one Dr. Donaldson, of Cambridge, had already responded to a similar challenge with an anticipatory variation of the idea : Youths who would senior wranglers be Must drink the juice distilled from tea, Must burn the midnight oil from...1892, William S. Walsh, Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities, page 970
Synonyms of oneth
Forms of oneth
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Origin of oneth
From one + -th (ordinal suffix).
Words formed from oneth
Words that rhyme with oneth
Questions about oneth
- What does oneth mean?
- Oneth means 'first', or other ordinal derivatives of 'one', such as hundred-and-oneth or minus-oneth.
- What part of speech is oneth?
- Oneth can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce oneth?
- Oneth is pronounced /ˈwʌnθ/.
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