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Billionth   /bˈɪljənθ/   Listen
Billionth

adjective
1.
The ordinal number of one billion in counting order.





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"Billionth" Quotes from Famous Books



... what stage of life in a man, had corresponded seventeen thousand years in a Mammoth. Now exactly this was what Kant desired to know about our planet. Let her have lived any number of years that you suggest, (shall we say if you please, that she is in her billionth year?) still that tells us nothing about the period of life, the stage, which she may be supposed to have reached. Is she a child, in fact, or is she an adult? And, if an adult, and that you gave a ball to the Solar System, is she that kind of person, that you would introduce ...
— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey


Words linked to "Billionth" :   USA, simple fraction, US, America, United States, U.S.A., the States, one-billionth, United States of America, common fraction, rank, U.S., ordinal


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