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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundredth/#m1)

2) A hundredth is one of a hundred equal parts of something, written 1/100 or 0.01. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundredth/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundredth/#x1)
- In 4.27 the 7 is in the hundredths place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundredth/#x2)
- She won the race by two hundredths of a second. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundredth/#x3)
- Our class celebrated the hundredth day of school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundredth/#x4)
- Seven hundredths is written as 0.07. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundredth/#x5)
- A centimetre is a hundredth of a metre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundredth/#x6)
- Round 3.456 to the nearest hundredth: 3.46. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundredth/#x7)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundredth/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hundredth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundredth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.