hundredth meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

hundredth

adj

/ˈhʌndɹə(d)θ/ · /ˈhʌndɹə(t)θ/

Etymology From Middle English hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred + -th (ordinal suffix). The Old English term was hundtēontigoþa.

The ordinal form of the number one hundred.

This being Woodie Guthrie’s a hundredth birthday, in the centerpiece of this year’s South by Southwest Conference, I’m also gonna talk a little bit about my musical development and where it intersected with Woodie’s and why.2012 March 15, Bruce Springsteen, keynote speech, South by Southwest Music Conference

Derived terms: hundredthly, hundredth monkey, three-hundredth

hundredth

noun

Etymology From Middle English hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred + -th (ordinal suffix). The Old English term was hundtēontigoþa.

The person or thing in the hundredth position.

One of a hundred equal parts of a whole.

We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life spans of a couple octillion attoseconds. And an attosecond is an eternity compared with the lifetime of the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for one-thousandth of an attosecond before decaying.2023 October 9, Dennis Overbye, “The Science Nobel Winners Were Short and Fast”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2023:

Related terms: one-hundredth