ten-millionth
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
The ordinal form of the number ten million.
noun
One of ten million equal parts of a whole.
Example Sentences
- "The average size of the pores in this barrier was about four ten-millionths of an inch, that is to say, .0000004 inches."
- "In the first ten-millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was composed of what is known as a quark-gluon plasma, but that immediately condensed into the matter we now know."
- "It [the metre] was originally deemed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole, before being replaced by a platinum bar held in Paris."
Etymology
From ten million + -th.