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HUNDREDTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hundredth mean?
• HUNDREDTH (noun)
The noun HUNDREDTH has 2 senses:
1. position 100 in a countable series of things
2. one part in a hundred equal parts
Familiarity information: HUNDREDTH used as a noun is rare.
• HUNDREDTH (adjective)
The adjective HUNDREDTH has 1 sense:
1. the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order
Familiarity information: HUNDREDTH used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Position 100 in a countable series of things
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("hundredth" is a kind of...):
rank (relative status)
Sense 2
Meaning:
One part in a hundred equal parts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
hundredth; one-hundredth; one percent
Hypernyms ("hundredth" is a kind of...):
common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ordinal number of one hundred in counting order
Synonyms:
100th; centesimal; hundredth
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Context examples
A prefix indicating a quantity of a hundredth, 10E-2.
(Centi, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of amount of substance equal to one hundredth of a mole (10E-2 mole).
(Centimole, NCI Thesaurus)
The metric unit of mass equal to one hundredth of a gram.
(Centigram, NCI Thesaurus)
A basic unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter or approximately 0.393700787 inch.
(Centimeter, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter or 10 milliliters.
(Centiliter, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of concentration (molarity unit) equal to one hundredth of a mole (10E-2 mole) of solute in one liter of solution.
(Centimole per Liter, NCI Thesaurus)
This corresponds to less than one hundredth of a light year.
(Giant Black Hole Pair Photobombs Andromeda Galaxy, NASA)
Any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total.
(Percentile, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of time equal to one hundredth of a second (10E-2 seconds).
(Centisecond, NCI Thesaurus)
There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
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