hundredth

«hundredth» in Mova's school dictionary: number 100 in order, coming after the ninety-ninth — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective, ordinal number (hundredth, 100th); noun (a hundredth, hundredths)

meaning for a pupil

1) Hundredth means number 100 in order, coming after the ninety-ninth. tree →

2) A hundredth is one of a hundred equal parts of something, written 1/100 or 0.01. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths, hundredths come in fractions and decimals: in 3.45 the 5 is in the hundredths place; one hundredth is 0.01; a penny or cent is one hundredth of a pound or dollar; one centimetre is one hundredth of a metre. Races are timed to hundredths of a second. As an ordinal: the hundredth day of school is a celebration in some classes. Phrases: one hundredth, the hundredths column, a hundredth of a second.

examples

• One cent is one hundredth of a dollar. tree →
• In 4.27 the 7 is in the hundredths place. tree →
• She won the race by two hundredths of a second. tree →
• Our class celebrated the hundredth day of school. tree →
• Seven hundredths is written as 0.07. tree →
• A centimetre is a hundredth of a metre. tree →
• Round 3.456 to the nearest hundredth: 3.46. tree →
• At last, on the five-hundredth day from the day of starting, I saw far off on the horizon what looked like the peak of a mountain. tree →

note

Spelling trap: hundred + th = hundredth (the d and the th are both pronounced). «Hundredths» (parts) vs «hundreds» (groups of 100): 0.03 is three hundredths, 300 is three hundreds. In decimals the hundredths place is the second digit after the point.

In the corpora

• A stopwatch measures short times very exactly, even tenths and hundredths of a second.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hundredth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.