Meaning of oneth | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 'first', or other ordinal derivatives of 'one', such as hundred-and-oneth or minus-oneth
   nonstandard, not-comparable
2. Used at the end of algebraic expressions indicating ordinal position that end in 1, such as (k+1)ᵗʰ
   nonstandard, not-comparable

Examples

“Soon after the first law of thermodynamics was postulated in the mid nineteenth century, it was realized how the law presupposed a more elementary law, which we now call the zeroth law ... But scientists soon realized how even the zeroth law was too advanced, since it presupposed a yet more elementary law, which explains why the minus-oneth law had to be formulated. —Paul M. S. Monk, 2008. "Laws and the minus-oneth law of thermodynamics", in Physical chemistry: understanding our chemical world, p. 8.”

“(see table 9.1 with row numbers four, ten, and sixteen terminating respectively at the eleventh, twenty-ninth and forty-oneth place) —A. R. Rajwade, 2001. Convex polyhedra with regularity conditions and Hilbert's third problem, p. 72.”

“About once a year, and generally after the six o'clock news (query for B.B.C. experts — is the six o'clock public more gullible?) a Very Big Noise has reported that, after the n — nth or n — plus — oneth year of the war, the health of the nation is yet again better than ever.”

“The attempts, to a mathematician at any rate, are less comprehensible than the n plus oneth dimension, where n is any integer you please.”

“If the billionth dog in the line is a Saint Bernard, then the last (billion-plus-oneth) dog in the line is a Saint Bernard.”

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