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Billionth   /bˈɪljənθ/   Listen
Billionth

adjective
1.
The ordinal number of one billion in counting order.





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"Billionth" Quotes from Famous Books



... right. "But observe," said Cooper, "the details of construction. The sun is made up of infinitely small eggs, since we know that the weight of all the hen's eggs consumed by the human race since the beginning of the Christian era is equal to one-billionth the weight of the sun. The planets are fashioned in the same way. Jupiter you see is made up of little, squirming animal-like units; that is because Jupiter occupies the same amount of space that would be filled by the descendants ...
— The Patient Observer - And His Friends • Simeon Strunsky
... alcohol reducing the medicine to a hundredth part of the quantity of that which preceded it. In this way the dilution of the original millionth of a grain of medicine contained in the grain of powder operated on is carried successively to the billionth, trillionth, quadrillionth, quintillionth, and very often much higher fractional divisions. A dose of any of these medicines is a minute fraction of a drop, obtained by moistening with them one or more little globules of ...
— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Words linked to "Billionth" :   the States, United States of America, simple fraction, United States, ordinal, U.S.A., U.S., USA, US, America, common fraction, rank


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