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100TH
Dictionary entry overview: What does 100th mean?
• 100TH (adjective)
The adjective 100TH has 1 sense:
1. the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order
Familiarity information: 100TH used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ordinal number of one hundred in counting order
Synonyms:
100th; centesimal; hundredth
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Context examples
A required drug quantity that is less than 1/100th of a typical drug dosage.
(Microdose, NCI Thesaurus)
Preliminary analysis suggests the diminutive galaxy weighs in at no more than 3 billion solar masses (roughly 1/100th the mass of our fully grown Milky Way galaxy).
(NASA's Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Image of Distant Galaxy, NASA)
As stars like our sun age, they puff up into red giants and then gradually lose about half their mass, shrinking down to 1/100th of their original size to roughly the size of Earth.
(K2 Finds Dead Star Vaporizing a Mini 'Planet', NASA)
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