hundredth
Speech parts
1. hundredth - Noun
2. hundredth - Adjective
3. hundredth - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units.
Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth.
One of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or may be, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred.
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Examples
It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without becoming soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.
Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result...Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.
A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.