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Definition of Millionth

1. Adjective. The ordinal number of one million in counting order.

2. Noun. Position 1,000,000 in a countable series of things.

3. Noun. One part in a million equal parts.

Definition of Millionth

1. a. Being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million.

2. n. The quotient of a unit divided by one million; one of a million equal parts.

Definition of Millionth

1. Adjective. The ordinal form of the number one million. ¹

2. Noun. The person or thing in the millionth position. ¹

3. Noun. One of a million equal parts of a whole. Term ppm (parts per million) is also used. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Millionth

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Millionth

million floating point operations per second million instructions per second millionaire millionaire shortbread millionairedom millionaires millionairess millionairesses millionary millioned

millionerd millionerds millionfold millionnaire millions millionth millionths milliosmol milliosmole milliosmols

milliparsec millipascal millipascals milliped millipedal millipede millipedes millipedic millipeds millipore

Literary usage of Millionth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Currents and Counter-currents in Medical Science: With Other Addresses and by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1861)
"That is, an important medicinal effect is to be expected from the two hundredth or hundredth part of the millionth of the millionth of the millionth of the ..."

2. The Christian Examiner (1842)
"Repeat the same process with the same quantity of fresh sugar of milk, and every grain of your powder will contain the millionth of a grain of the medicinal ..."

3. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"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 ..."

4. Medical Essays: 1842-1882 by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1911)
"In this way the dilution of the original millionth of a grain of medicine contained in the gram of powder operated on is carried successively to the ..."

5. The London Medical Gazette (1850)
"as a half-millionth proportion of the carbonate of lead diffused through water which is continued daily for weeks and months together,—the lead acting not ..."

6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1896)
"Measurement of Electric Currents through Air at different Densities down to one Five-millionth of the Density of Ordinary Air. By Lord KELVIN, JT BOTTOMLEY, ..."

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