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hundredth

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hun·dredth  (hndrdth)
n.
1. The ordinal number matching the number 100 in a series.
2. One of 100 equal parts.
hundredth adj.
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Noun1.hundredth - position 100 in a countable series of things
rank - relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority"
2.hundredth - one part in a hundred equal parts
one percent, one-hundredth
common fraction, simple fraction - the quotient of two integers
Adj.1.hundredthhundredth - the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order
100th, centesimal
ordinal - being or denoting a numerical order in a series; "ordinal numbers"; "held an ordinal rank of seventh"
Translations
French hundredth [-ɪdθ] hundred num → centième
German hundredth [ˈhʌndrədθ] hundred num → hundertste(r, s)
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Tho' pleasing both in her Person and Manners (between ourselves) she never possessed the hundredth part of my Beauty or Accomplishments.
Love and Friendship by Austen, Jane View in context
Three feet being the average Perimeter it follows that, in a Polygon of three hundred sides each side will be no more than the hundredth part of a foot in length, or little more than the tenth part of an inch; and in a Polygon of six or seven hundred sides the sides are little larger than the diameter of a Spaceland pin-head.
Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context
The world says that no worded description of a moving spectacle is a hundredth part as moving as the same spectacle seen with one's own eyes--yet the world is willing to let its son and its daughter and itself look at Titian's beast, but won't stand a description of it in words.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
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