one-hundredth
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.81 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
The ordinal form of the number one hundred.
noun
The hundredth part of the number one, represented by the second decimal digit in a percentage.
Example Sentences
- "The recurrence of this anniversary, for the one-hundredth time, rouses the memory and enforces the example."
- "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."
- "The one-hundredth year corresponds to a.d. 96."
- "ten and two one-hundredths percent = 10.02%"
- "one one-hundredth of a percent = 0.01%"
- "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."