one-hundredth meaning: definition, quotations

one-hundredth

adj

The ordinal form of the number one hundred.

The recurrence of this anniversary, for the one-hundredth time, rouses the memory and enforces the example.1877, W. E. Arthur, “The American Age Contrasted”, in Frederick Saunders, editor, Our National Centennial Jubilee. Orations, Addresses and Poems Delivered on the Fourth of July, 1876. In the Several States of the Union., New York, N.Y.: E. B. Treat, […], page 522:
He had said, “Sorry,” for the one-hundredth time for the whiskey shower. But something about the one-hundredth time mixed with the softness of his voice, the insincerity behind it and the memory of a lighter dancing around my face, and rape, made me so angry that I threw the bottle of champagne, roses, and perfume out of my living room window.2006, Judy C. Andrews, An Ocean of Jewels, The Harlem Writers Guild Press, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 190:

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The one-hundredth year corresponds to a.d. 96.2007, Brant A[nderson] Gardner, “4 Nephi Part 2: Commentary”, in Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon, volume 6 (Fourth Nephi through Moroni), Draper, Ut.: Greg Kofford Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 27:

noun

The hundredth part of the number one, represented by the second decimal digit in a percentage.

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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: