one-hundred-millionth
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.81 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
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
- "In “The Anatomy of Science,” published in 1926, Gilbert N. Lewis, a brilliantly iconoclastic chemist, who liked to be accurate about such things, computed the actual probability that an object weighing one one-hundred-millionth of a gram, if looked at once a second, will ever be found one ten-millionth of a centimetre above a supporting surface."
- "The invention consists of a thin film covered with regularly spaced holes measuring about 100 angstroms in diameter, or about one one-hundred millionth of a meter."
- "Processing speed of a silicon chip: one-hundred-millionth of a second"
Etymology
From one hundred million + -th.