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单词 millionth
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Definition of millionth in English:

millionth

ordinal number ˈmɪljənθ
  • 1Constituting number one million in a sequence; 1,000,000th.

    the museum welcomed its millionth visitor 21 months after opening
    Example sentencesExamples
    • At the Venice event, the company announced the sale of its 200 millionth printer.
    • The dramatic scene was performed with the speed and expertise of a surgeon on his one millionth appendectomy.
    • We signed our forty millionth customer in wireless.
    • The service signed up its millionth subscriber after about three months.
    • The first of the Japanese manufacturers to invest heavily in Britain has just completed its one millionth car at its factory in Burnaston.
    • We're celebrating a pretty hefty milestone—the planting of our 20 millionth tree.
    • The magazine celebrated the manufacture of the five millionth Model T by publishing a comic playlet entitled "The Pageant of the Ford."
    • That is a huge achievement, particularly as we are about to load the two millionth DNA profile onto the database.
    • It is on the verge of hooking up its five millionth wholesale broadband connection—a year ahead of schedule.
    • It sold its 500 millionth mouse during the period, which is easier to type than to say.
    1. 1.1informal Constituting an unspecified but very large number in a sequence.
      I asked the same question for the millionth time
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I just watched The Dark Knight for the millionth time.
      • I really enjoyed Jude Law, in his millionth film of the year.
      • This was the millionth letter he'd received from her asking for his help.
      • I am perhaps the millionth person to mention that one of the biggest barriers to is the software installation and upgrading complexity.
      • He is more focused on persuading the millionth schoolchild to pick up a cricket bat.
      • His film is about the millionth variation on a tried-and-true template: everyday folks grappling with everyday problems while an acoustic guitar soundtracks their lives.
      • While they may been the umpteenth millionth garage band to make headlines in the past year, there's a reason why.
      • They like to bury the opposition in paperwork, and we just got the millionth page of documents today.
      • Shouting about a "new world order" is ultimately more palatable than the millionth pledge of apathy in an indie-rock song.
      • Must I endure the millionth tribute to The Three Stooges?
  • 2Each of one million equal parts into which something is or may be divided.

    a dot less than a millionth of an inch in diameter
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The reactors range in diameter from about 400 to 60 microns, or millionths of a meter.
    • Going from bottom to top, we are measuring electrical activity in just a few millionths of a volt.
    • The gas's Fermi temperature itself is about 2 millionths of a degree above absolute zero.
    • The entire laser scan occurs in a couple of millionths of a second.
    • The device can detect even tiny concentrations of less than one microgram (one millionth of a gram) per liter.
    • A femtosecond is one millionth of a billionth of a second.
    • A nanometerr is a billionth of a meter, or a millionth of a millimeter.
    • In terms of conventional physics, the grouse represents only a millionth of either the mass or the energy of an acre.
    • A millionth of a pound of pesticide can sometimes be deadly.
    • Notice that's only 37 millionths of the speed of light.

Rhymes

billionth, trillionth, zillionth

Definition of millionth in US English:

millionth

ordinal numberˈmilyənTH
  • 1Constituting number one million in a sequence; 1,000,000th.

    the museum welcomed its millionth visitor 21 months after opening
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is on the verge of hooking up its five millionth wholesale broadband connection—a year ahead of schedule.
    • The dramatic scene was performed with the speed and expertise of a surgeon on his one millionth appendectomy.
    • The service signed up its millionth subscriber after about three months.
    • We're celebrating a pretty hefty milestone—the planting of our 20 millionth tree.
    • The first of the Japanese manufacturers to invest heavily in Britain has just completed its one millionth car at its factory in Burnaston.
    • That is a huge achievement, particularly as we are about to load the two millionth DNA profile onto the database.
    • We signed our forty millionth customer in wireless.
    • It sold its 500 millionth mouse during the period, which is easier to type than to say.
    • At the Venice event, the company announced the sale of its 200 millionth printer.
    • The magazine celebrated the manufacture of the five millionth Model T by publishing a comic playlet entitled "The Pageant of the Ford."
    1. 1.1informal Constituting an unspecified but very large number in a sequence.
      I asked the same question for the millionth time
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I am perhaps the millionth person to mention that one of the biggest barriers to is the software installation and upgrading complexity.
      • While they may been the umpteenth millionth garage band to make headlines in the past year, there's a reason why.
      • They like to bury the opposition in paperwork, and we just got the millionth page of documents today.
      • Shouting about a "new world order" is ultimately more palatable than the millionth pledge of apathy in an indie-rock song.
      • This was the millionth letter he'd received from her asking for his help.
      • I really enjoyed Jude Law, in his millionth film of the year.
      • His film is about the millionth variation on a tried-and-true template: everyday folks grappling with everyday problems while an acoustic guitar soundtracks their lives.
      • He is more focused on persuading the millionth schoolchild to pick up a cricket bat.
      • I just watched The Dark Knight for the millionth time.
      • Must I endure the millionth tribute to The Three Stooges?
  • 2Each of one million equal parts into which something is or may be divided.

    a dot less than a millionth of an inch in diameter
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The entire laser scan occurs in a couple of millionths of a second.
    • The device can detect even tiny concentrations of less than one microgram (one millionth of a gram) per liter.
    • A nanometerr is a billionth of a meter, or a millionth of a millimeter.
    • Notice that's only 37 millionths of the speed of light.
    • The gas's Fermi temperature itself is about 2 millionths of a degree above absolute zero.
    • A femtosecond is one millionth of a billionth of a second.
    • The reactors range in diameter from about 400 to 60 microns, or millionths of a meter.
    • In terms of conventional physics, the grouse represents only a millionth of either the mass or the energy of an acre.
    • Going from bottom to top, we are measuring electrical activity in just a few millionths of a volt.
    • A millionth of a pound of pesticide can sometimes be deadly.
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