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billionth

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1. billionth - Noun

2. billionth - Adjective

3. billionth - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

one part in a billion equal parts

position 1,000,000,000 in a countable series of things

the ordinal number of one billion in counting order

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How could I not have known that there are little things the size of "Planck length" in the universe, which are a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimeter? Imagine if you dropped one in a dark theater how hard it would be to find. Woody Allen

Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule. Paul McEuen

On the big Bang theory For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe. Albert Einstein

SI prefixes are combined with the word second to denote subdivisions of the second, e.g., the millisecond (one thousandth of a second), the microsecond (one millionth of a second), and the nanosecond (one billionth of a second). Source: Internet

Most accurate relative gravimeters are superconducting gravimeters, and these are sensitive to one thousandth of one billionth of Earth surface gravity. Source: Internet

The giant machine could revolutionize human understanding of the universe by recreating the conditions which were present less than a billionth of a second after the Big Bang. Source: Internet

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