Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ordinal number matching the number 100 in a series.
- noun One of 100 equal parts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Next after the ninety-ninth: an ordinal numeral.
- noun The quotient of unity divided by one hundred; one of a hundred equal parts of anything: as, one hundredth () of a mile.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units.
- adjective Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth.
- noun One of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or may be, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective The ordinal form of the number
one hundred . - noun The person or thing in the hundredth position.
- noun One of a hundred equal parts of a whole. Called also
percent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order
- noun position 100 in a countable series of things
- noun one part in a hundred equal parts
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Examples
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[Page 422] this hundredth is too good for anybody I ever saw.
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892
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It was the fourth day, and I was lounging in the camp's little market, improving my Persian by learning the ninety-nine names of God (only the Bactrian camels know the hundredth, which is why they look so deuced superior) from an Astrabad caravan-guard-turned-murderer, when Kutebar came in a great bustle to take me to Yakub Beg at once.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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I mean upper 1 percent, or what's called the hundredth percentile on intelligence tests.
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Thirdly, it would have been senseless to sacrifice one's own troops in order to destroy the French army, which without external interference was destroying itself at such a rate that, though its path was not blocked, it could not carry across the frontier more than it actually did in December, namely a hundredth part of the original army.
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869
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The meaning of which is this: -- in Rome, the customary interest for money was what was called _centesimæ usuræ_; that is, the hundredth part, or one per cent.
The Caesars Thomas De Quincey 1822
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There is something called the hundredth monkey effect - a phenomenon where supposedly a learned behavior spreads instantaneously from one group of monkeys to another once a critical number has learned it.
New York Daily Photo 2008
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'Never think yourself safe because you do your duty in ninety-nine points; it is the hundredth which is to be the ground of your self - denial, which must evidence, or rather instance and realize, your faith.'
Abbeychurch Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Thirdly, it would have been senseless to sacrifice one’s own troops in order to destroy the French army, which without external interference was destroying itself at such a rate that, though its path was not blocked, it could not carry across the frontier more than it actually did in December, namely a hundredth part of the original army.
War and Peace 2003
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And when Tim Hagan, with straight left for the hundredth time to bleeding nose and mangled mouth, and with ever reiterant right hook to stomach, had him dazed and reeling, the breath whistling and sobbing through his lacerated lips — was no time for succor from palaces and bank accounts.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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There I was, sitting half-naked in public for the tenth time that day, the hundredth time that month, the millionth time in my life — and the associations were inconsistent?
sarahatlee commented on the word hundredth
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June 15, 2007