hundredth
pronunciation
How to pronounce hundredth in British English:
UK [ˈhʌndrədθ]
How to pronounce hundredth in American English:
US [ˈhʌndrɪdθ]
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- Noun:
- position 100 in a countable series of things
- one part in a hundred
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- Adjective:
- the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order
Word Origin
- hundredth
- early 14c., from hundred + -th (1). Old English used hundrað.
Example
- 1. For perhaps the hundredth time , I try to think like einstein .
- 2. Remember , it may be the hundredth time you 've heard it , but it is all new to your audience .
- 3. They are gathered up and injected into the quantum experiment at speeds of around five meters per second - just a hundredth the speed of the molecules flying around in the air .
- 4. Its precious pigeon cargo would return to the city bearing messages by the thousand , all photographed using the brand-new technique of microfilming and printed on slivers of collodium , each weighing just a hundredth of an ounce .
- 5. Yet if I add up the heroes he has personified and if I say that I know him a little better at the hundredth character counted off , this will be felt to contain an element of truth .