billionth
billionth
Definition
bil·lionth (bil′yənt̸h)
adjective
- coming last in a series of a billion
- designating any of the billion equal parts of something
noun
- the last in a series of a billion
- any of the billion equal parts of something
billionth
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- meter: This is the manufacture of devices which are a few billionths of a meter in size.
- meter: A nanometer is a billionth of a meter, or approximately the length of 10 hydrogen atoms strung together.
- second: We can do this to an accuracy of better than a billionth of a second.
- gram: Deadly amount One billionth of a gram can kill one person.
Adjective modifier
- few: This is the manufacture of devices which are a few billionths of a meter in size.
Modifies a noun
- acre: Next spring, we will see our 10th year of planting biotech crops in the U.S. We'll probably pass the billionth acre.
- baby: Regardless of whether he's the six billionth baby or not, I'm a happy mother.
- song: Apple sells about 3 million songs a day for 99 US cents each, and sold its 1 billionth digital song in February.
- download: Earlier this year, Apple's iTunes service recorded its one billionth download.
- hand: The wait for the ten billionth hand is on.
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