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one hundred five

one hundred five

1.0
The number after one hundred four and before one hundred six
  • numeral
  • US
translation icon : ciento cinco
  • The book is one hundred five pages long, making it a quick read.

Examples

  • There were exactly one hundred five students in attendance at the assembly.

  • She finished the race in one hundred five minutes according to the official timer.

  • There are one hundred five students in the class.

  • The total cost is one hundred five dollars.

  • The temperature reached one hundred five degrees Fahrenheit today.

  • During the race, he finished with a time of one hundred five minutes.

  • The committee approved the budget of one hundred five thousand dollars for the project.

Surface Forms

one hundred five cardinal word
105 cardinal digit

Morphology

one + hundred + five

The meaning 'the number 105' is directly and transparently computed from the constituent numerals 'one' + 'hundred' + 'five' following standard English number formation rules (one hundred five = 100 + 5). This compositional numeric pattern is cross-linguistically common and immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows the individual numerals.

Etymology

The number one hundred five comes from our way of counting by tens. One hundred means 100 and five adds five more, so together they make '105'.