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billionth

billionth

1 4.4
To be in position number one billion in a sequence
  • adjective
  • /ˈbɪljənθ/
translation icon : mil millonésimo
  • IT'S OLD FAITHFUL'S BILLIONTH BIRTHDAY.
  • billionth time

I wasn't intending to be on TV for the billionth time.

Examples

  • THAT OLD BLOWHARD BETTER NOT SEE HER BILLIONTH BIRTHDAY !

  • Sometimes they release it only in billionths of a gram to send a signal.

  • And for the billionth time.

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  • For the billionth time, it's Mr. Giggles to you.

  • Isabel, for the billionth time, you are not depressed, I'm positive.

  • *turns into a sobbing snot monster for the billionth time*

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  • Maybe it was their billionth active monthly user, maybe it was just by chance, but Facebook launched its first television ad last week called: "The Things that Connect Us," but by now we probably all know it as Chairs.

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  • So as soon as there's a match inside our brain through the neural networks, a signal is sent in a billionth of a second called fear.

  • It was the summer when—for the billionth time—the jumble, the mayhem, the mess proved itself more subtle than this.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • After the billionth attempt, he finally solved the puzzle.

Compounds

One of a billion equal parts

How High

billionth
1 4.4
millionth
3 2.1
thousandth
1 2.1
hundredth
14 1.0
tenth
100 1.0
first
1.0

Surface Forms

billionth positive

Morphology

billionth = billion (transparent) = billion + th

The adjective is a regular ordinal formed from the numeral 'billion' with the productive English ordinal suffix '-th'.

Etymology

The word billionth comes from billion, which is made of bi- ('two') and million ('a million'), and the ending -th turns it into an order word. So billionth marks the position number 'one billion' in a sequence.