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HUNDRED THOUSAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten
Synonyms:
100000; hundred thousand; lakh
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("hundred thousand" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(in Roman numerals, C written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 100,000 items or units
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
Every several hundred thousand years, the magnetic field dramatically shifts and reverses its polarity.
(Earth's last magnetic field reversal took far longer than once thought, National Science Foundation)
I estimated its circumference at twenty-five miles, its width as varying from two to five miles; while my most conservative calculation placed on its beaches two hundred thousand seals.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He said it had been estimated that 650,000-700,000 children worldwide die from pro-vitamin A deficiency each year with a further several hundred thousand going blind.
(Golden Bananas High in Pro-Vitamin A Developed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Eight hundred thousand Sophie toys were sold in France in 2010 — more than eight times the number of real giraffes living in Africa.
(Study: Popularity of Wildlife Can Harm Public's Perception, VOA)
Mr. Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly a hundred thousand pounds from his father, who had intended to purchase an estate, but did not live to do it.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It may be expected that on the eve of a migration which will consign us to a perfectly new existence, Mr. Micawber spoke as if they were going five hundred thousand miles, I should offer a few valedictory remarks to two such friends as I see before me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
After all their preaching and throwing my father’s model life, as they called it, in my teeth, they had to pay his debts to the tune of nearly a million, whilst I can’t get a hundred thousand out of them.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Taking into account a range of plausible erosion rates, they calculated that it would have taken anywhere between roughly a hundred thousand years and a hundred million years for the ice to erode the crater to its current shape — the faster the erosion rate, the younger the crater would be within the plausible range, and vice versa.
(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)
An international team of astronomers has found that one of the stars in NGC 3201 is behaving very oddly — it is being flung backwards and forwards at speeds of several hundred thousand kilometres per hour, with the pattern repeating every 167 days.
(Odd Behaviour of Star Reveals Lonely Black Hole Hiding in Giant Star Cluster, ESO)
The consensus view of human history is that the ancestors of present-day humans diverged from the ancestors of extinct Neanderthal and Denisovan groups around 500,000-700,000 years ago, before the emergence of ‘modern’ humans in Africa in the last few hundred thousand years.
(Global human genome study reveals our complex evolutionary history, University of Cambridge)
