ONE HUNDRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does one hundred mean? 

• ONE HUNDRED (adjective)
  The adjective ONE HUNDRED has 1 sense:

1. being ten more than ninety

  Familiarity information: ONE HUNDRED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONE HUNDRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being ten more than ninety

Synonyms:

100; c; hundred; one hundred

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

Yes, and only one hundred and forty miles if it continues for three days and nights.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A unit of measurement of the number of entities per unit of area equal to one hundred high powered fields.

(Per 100 High Powered Fields, NCI Thesaurus)

Retailed at a dollar, on a royalty of fifteen per cent, it would bring him one hundred and fifty dollars.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It is but one hundred feet long, and for the rest ye must trust to God and to your fingers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There are few people on the trail. Sometimes we travel one hundred miles and never see a sign of life.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The immunoglobulin (Ig) constant chain domains and a single extracellular domain in each type of MHC chains are homologous and approximately one hundred amino acids long, and include a conserved intra-domain disulfide bond.

(Immunoglobulin Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

A prefix indicating a quantity of one hundred, 10E2.

(Deca, NCI Thesaurus)

I mean, that no man in his senses would marry Lydia on so slight a temptation as one hundred a year during my life, and fifty after I am gone.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The pinery had yielded only one hundred in the last year.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Onset is usually within one hundred days of transplantation or immunologic manipulation.

(Acute Graft Versus Host Disease, NCI Thesaurus)