英和和英

語源

From 中期英語 hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred +‎ -th (ordinal suffix). The 古期英語 term was hundtēontigoþa.

発音

• IPA: /ˈhʌndɹə(d)θ/, /ˈhʌndɹə(t)θ/
• enPR: hŭn′drədth, hŭn′drətth
• 韻: -ʌndɹədθ
• ハイフネーション: hun‧dredth

形容詞

hundredth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number one hundred.

   Synonyms: 100th, 100

   • 2012 March 15, Bruce Springsteen, keynote speech, South by Southwest Music Conference:

     This being Woodie Guthrie’s a hundredth birthday, in the centerpiece of this year’s South by Southwest Conference, I’m also gonna talk a little bit about my musical development and where it intersected with Woodie’s and why.

派生語

名詞

hundredth (plural hundredths)

1. The person or thing in the hundredth position.
2. One of a hundred equal parts of a whole.
   • 2023 October 9, Dennis Overbye, “The Science Nobel Winners Were Short and Fast”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 12 October 2023:

     We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life spans of a couple octillion attoseconds. And an attosecond is an eternity compared with the lifetime of the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for one-thousandth of an attosecond before decaying.

参考

• one-hundredth