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HUNDREDTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One part in a hundred equal parts
Synonyms:
hundredth; one-hundredth; one percent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("hundredth" is a kind of...):
common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Position 100 in a countable series of things
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("hundredth" is a kind of...):
rank (relative status)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ordinal number of one hundred in counting order
Synonyms:
100th; centesimal; hundredth
Classified under:
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Context examples:
Dust appears to lie in a belt that extends a few hundred million kilometres from Proxima Centauri and has a total mass of about one hundredth of the Earth’s mass.
(ALMA Discovers Cold Dust Around Nearest Star, ESO)
A basic unit of length in the former CGS version of metric system, equal to one hundredth of a meter or approximately 0.393 700 787 inch.
(Centimeter, NCI Thesaurus)
The metric unit of absorbed radiation dose equal to the absorption of one hundredth of joule of radiation energy per kilogram of matter.
(Centigray, NCI Thesaurus)
The unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter or 10 milliliters or 10 cubic centimeters or 0.6102 cubic inch.
(Centiliter, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Meteorologists define drizzle as water droplets smaller than 0.5 millimeters in diameter, or about one-five-hundredth of an inch.
(Drizzle at sub-zero temps recorded in Antarctica, National Science Foundation)
A non-SI unit of energy defined as one hundredth of the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of pure water by one hundred degrees (from 0 to 100 C or from 273.15 to 373.15 K) at the constant pressure of 101.325 kPa or one atm.
(Mean Calorie, NCI Thesaurus)
Alas! I prophesied truly, and failed only in one single circumstance, that in all the misery I imagined and dreaded, I did not conceive the hundredth part of the anguish I was destined to endure.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Whatever I can do, as you well know, I am always ready enough to do for the good of those I love; and, though I could never feel for this little girl the hundredth part of the regard I bear your own dear children, nor consider her, in any respect, so much my own, I should hate myself if I were capable of neglecting her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
It finds itself very close to its host star (0.012 AU, around a hundredth of the distance between the Earth and the Sun), which itself is a medium-sized active K dwarf in the Virgo Constellation.
(Mercury Not as Rare as Previously Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
You should listen to me till you were tired, and advise me till you were still tired more; but it is impossible to put a hundredth part of my great mind on paper, so I will abstain altogether, and leave you to guess what you like.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
