Definition of Billionth

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

Geographical relationships: America, The States, U.s., U.s.a., United States, United States Of America, Us, Usa
Generic synonyms: Rank

2. Adjective. The ordinal number of one billion in counting order.
Similar to: Ordinal

3. Noun. One part in a billion equal parts.
Exact synonyms: One-billionth
Generic synonyms: Common Fraction, Simple Fraction

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

billie
billies
billietite
billing
billing credit
billings
billingsgate
billingsgates
billingsleyite
billion
billionaire
billionaires
billionfold
billions
billionth (current term)
billionths
billitonite
billitonites
billman
billmen
billon
billons
billow
billow maidens
billowed
billowier
billowiest
billowiness
billowing

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. ..."

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