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FIVE-HUNDREDTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does five-hundredth mean?
• FIVE-HUNDREDTH (adjective)
The adjective FIVE-HUNDREDTH has 1 sense:
1. the ordinal number of five hundred in counting order
Familiarity information: FIVE-HUNDREDTH used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ordinal number of five hundred in counting order
Synonyms:
500th; five-hundredth
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Context examples
Meteorologists define drizzle as water droplets smaller than 0.5 millimeters in diameter, or about one-five-hundredth of an inch.
(Drizzle at sub-zero temps recorded in Antarctica, National Science Foundation)
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