hundred-millionth
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.81 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
The ordinal form of the number one hundred million.
noun
One of one hundred million equal parts of a whole.
Example Sentences
- "The newer methods tell us quite definitely, for example, that the diameter of an atom of diamond (which. chemically speaking, happens to be but one of a number of forms of carbon) is 1.54 hundred-millionths of a centimeter, the centimeter being less than one-half inch."
- "Old weighing instruments couldn’t even measure a mite (1/8750 ounce), much less a blanc, which would have been about a hundred-millionth of an ounce."
- "Imagine a beautiful stack of oranges (a stack that goes on forever and whose units are a couple hundred-millionths the size of a piece of fruit) and you'll get a feel for a crystal's internal structure."
Etymology
From hundred million + -th.