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ONE HUNDRED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being ten more than ninety
Synonyms:
100; c; hundred; one hundred
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
One hundred fifty-six (156) were classified as high physical activity individuals (over 150 minutes physical activity/week); 68 as low physical activity individuals (less 150 minutes physical activity/week).
(Rare Alzheimer's Disease Patients May Delay Cognitive Decline with Exercise, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A SI derived unit of pressure equivalent to one hundred pascals, 1 millibar or 0.0145 pounds per square inch.
(Hectopascal, NCI Thesaurus)
One hundred hectares is equal to one square kilometer.
(Hectare, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of measurement equal to one hundred thousand entities per unit of area equal to one high powered field.
(Hundred Thousand per High Powered Field, NCI Thesaurus)
She was pretty and soft, but she weighed one hundred and twenty pounds—a lusty last straw to the load dragged by the weak and starving animals.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The number establishes cheetahs as much less commonplace than just over one hundred years ago.
(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)
Yes, they are about one hundred and ninety miles from London, a considerable journey.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Dat is one little vol-au-vent dat is worth one hundred tousand pound.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A natural number greater than ninety-eight and less than one hundred and the quantity that it denotes.
(Ninety Nine, NCI Thesaurus)
For example, Moore's team found that a helicopter flying close to an arch in Utah's Bryce Canyon caused the arch to vibrate with an amplitude one hundred times greater than normal.
(Song of the red rock arches, National Science Foundation)
