hundredth
n.one of one hundred equal parts of something. You use it to talk about a very small fraction, like 1/100.
n.one of one hundred equal parts of a whole. Often used in the context of decimal fractions or ordinal positions.
“The runner finished in one hundredth of a second.”
“The athlete's time was recorded to the nearest hundredth of a second to ensure a fair result.”
“While the difference in performance was only a fraction of a second, the official timer measured it to the nearest hundredth to determine the winner.”
“The 26-year-old finished only eight hundredths of a second behind Werro in Lausanne last week and took European bronze in Birmingham.”
“The researchers heated the nanoparticles then supercooled them , going from more than 3,000°F (1,650°C) to room temperature within a few hundredths of a second.”
From Middle English hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred + -th (ordinal suffix). The Old English term was hundtēontigoþa.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.