hundredth
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- noun
- /ˈhʌndrədθ/
- The cake was divided into one hundred equal slices, giving each guest a hundredth of the dessert.
- hundredth of a second
- one-hundredth
- less than a hundredth
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Examples
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After years of preparation, the whole event is over in less than a hundredth of a second.
Academic text (2003) -
At the wavelength of visible light, a 15-meter telescope would have a resolution of about a hundredth of an arcsecond.
Academic text (1996) -
A hundredth of an inch thick.
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Since you're our one hundredth customer, you win.
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My time hasn't changed, not by a hundredth of a second.
Fiction book (1995) -
We could sit all day reminiscing and still not have touched one hundredth of our lives.
Fiction book (1997) -
Note: Means and standard deviations are rounded to the nearest hundredth of a point.
Academic text (1996) -
The rate of sublimation is typically equivalent to several hundredths of an inch of water per day.
Academic text (1996) -
Swimming performance was objectively measured by manual timing accurate to the hundredth of a second.
Academic text (1992) -
You learn that in primary school and over here you have tenths, hundredths and thousandths.
Synonyms
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One part out of every hundred parts
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The position after ninety-ninth in a list
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One of one hundred equal parts written as 1/100
Compounds
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Etymology
Hundredth joins hundred ('ten times ten') with the ending -th that can mean 'one of the parts'. So a hundredth is 'one of 100' equal parts, a very small share of something.