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单词 hundredth
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Definition of hundredth in English:

hundredth

ordinal number ˈhʌndrədθ
  • 1Constituting number one hundred in a sequence; 100th.

    her hundredth birthday
    the hundredth anniversary of his birth
    Example sentencesExamples
    • With all this excitement over the hundredth shuttle launch, I took a trip over to the International Space Station webpage.
    • His historical work of 1898 was also a piece of symbolism, deliberately timed to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the publication of the first book in vernacular Ukrainian.
    • A century after the Revolution of 1688, there was thought of celebrating its hundredth anniversary.
    • This set features two "special episodes," one of life-changing stories and another celebrating the show's hundredth episode.
    • Once I even got to hang around backstage, but felt rather squeamish about being the hundredth idiot to say, "Gee, I like your music".
    • In her hundredth year, she was still working.
    • Beatrice was very pleased to reach her hundredth birthday and make her local paper.
    • I could hardly begrudge him his lack of enthusiasm, we were probably the hundredth group he'd spoken to.
    • Roger sighed for what seemed the hundredth time that day.
    • I guarantee you're the hundredth person in history to think they "discovered" this spot.
  • 2Each of one hundred equal parts into which something is or may be divided.

    hundredths of a second determine the winners and losers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If the automobile industry had made as much progress as the computer industry in the past fifty years, a car today would cost a hundredth of a cent and go faster than the speed of light.
    • The smell is maybe a hundredth of what it was before.
    • These new-generation chemicals are 10 times more effective than earlier compounds at only a hundredth the cost.
    • Small things can shave a few hundredths from your time, and be the difference between a final and not, a medal and not — a gold and not.
    • His time over 200m was four hundredths of a second behind first place.
    • The overall GPA was calculated to the nearest hundredth of a point.
    • The lender typically pays 30 to 40 hundredths of a percentage point less than a bank would.
    • Two cyclists could be separated by just a couple of hundredths of a second at the finish line.
    • You can control the placement of all objects to within hundredths of a millimeter.
    • We are trying to do biology knowing perhaps only a tenth, or one hundredth, of our species.

Definition of hundredth in US English:

hundredth

ordinal number
  • 1Constituting number one hundred in a sequence; 100th.

    her hundredth birthday
    the hundredth anniversary of his birth
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I guarantee you're the hundredth person in history to think they "discovered" this spot.
    • Beatrice was very pleased to reach her hundredth birthday and make her local paper.
    • This set features two "special episodes," one of life-changing stories and another celebrating the show's hundredth episode.
    • With all this excitement over the hundredth shuttle launch, I took a trip over to the International Space Station webpage.
    • Roger sighed for what seemed the hundredth time that day.
    • In her hundredth year, she was still working.
    • His historical work of 1898 was also a piece of symbolism, deliberately timed to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the publication of the first book in vernacular Ukrainian.
    • Once I even got to hang around backstage, but felt rather squeamish about being the hundredth idiot to say, "Gee, I like your music".
    • I could hardly begrudge him his lack of enthusiasm, we were probably the hundredth group he'd spoken to.
    • A century after the Revolution of 1688, there was thought of celebrating its hundredth anniversary.
  • 2Each of one hundred equal parts into which something is or may be divided.

    hundredths of a second determine the winners and losers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • You can control the placement of all objects to within hundredths of a millimeter.
    • His time over 200m was four hundredths of a second behind first place.
    • Two cyclists could be separated by just a couple of hundredths of a second at the finish line.
    • We are trying to do biology knowing perhaps only a tenth, or one hundredth, of our species.
    • These new-generation chemicals are 10 times more effective than earlier compounds at only a hundredth the cost.
    • Small things can shave a few hundredths from your time, and be the difference between a final and not, a medal and not — a gold and not.
    • The lender typically pays 30 to 40 hundredths of a percentage point less than a bank would.
    • The smell is maybe a hundredth of what it was before.
    • If the automobile industry had made as much progress as the computer industry in the past fifty years, a car today would cost a hundredth of a cent and go faster than the speed of light.
    • The overall GPA was calculated to the nearest hundredth of a point.
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