Meaning of one-hundred-millionth | Babel Free

Definitions

One of one hundred million equal parts of a whole.

Examples

“In “The Anatomy of Science,” published in 1926, Gilbert N. Lewis, a brilliantly iconoclastic chemist, who liked to be accurate about such things, computed the actual probability that an object weighing one one-hundred-millionth of a gram, if looked at once a second, will ever be found one ten-millionth of a centimetre above a supporting surface.”

“The invention consists of a thin film covered with regularly spaced holes measuring about 100 angstroms in diameter, or about one one-hundred millionth of a meter.”

“Processing speed of a silicon chip: one-hundred-millionth of a second”

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