FromMiddle Englishhundred(“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled afterhundred +-th(ordinal suffix). The Old English term washundtēontigoþa.
- IPA(key): /ˈhʌndɹə(d)θ/,/ˈhʌndɹə(t)θ/
- enPR:hŭn′drədth,hŭn′drətth
- Rhymes:-ʌndɹədθ
- Hyphenation:hun‧dredth
hundredth (notcomparable)
- The ordinal form of the numberone hundred.
- Synonyms:100th,100th
- 2012 March 15, Bruce Springsteen, keynote speech,South by Southwest Music Conference:
- This beingWoodie Guthrie’s ahundredth 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.
ordinal of 100
—see also100thhundredth (pluralhundredths)
- The person or thing in the hundredth position.
- One of a hundred equal parts of a whole.
2023 October 9, Dennis Overbye, “The Science Nobel Winners Were Short and Fast”, inThe New York Times[1], archived fromthe original on12 October 2023: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.
person or thing in the hundredth position
one of a hundred equal parts of a whole
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