|
|
Definition of Billionth
1. Adjective. The ordinal number of one billion in counting order.
2. Noun. Position 1,000,000,000 in a countable series of things.
Generic synonyms: Rank
3. Noun. One part in a billion equal parts.
Definition of Billionth
1. Adjective. The ordinal form of the number one billion. ¹
2. Noun. The person or thing in the billionth position. ¹
3. Noun. One of a billion equal parts of a whole. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Billionth
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Billionth
Literary usage of Billionth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1873)
"In the twenty-second generation three rabbits were inoculated with a millionth,
a hundred-millionth, and a billionth of a drop of the blood of a rabbit dead ..."
2. A Dictionary of Electrical Words, Terms and Phrases by Edwin James Houston (1903)
"A prefix for one billionth, one thousand millionth, or 10-*. ... The billionth
of a henry. Bicron.—A unit of length equal to the billionth of a metre, ..."
3. The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology by James Samuelson, William Crookes (1871)
"... drive it through nearly 219 billions of inches, or 219 billionths of an inch
in the billionth of a second—the spaces being as the squares of the times. ..."
Other Resources:
