Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ordinal number matching the number one billion in a series.
- noun One of a billion equal parts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Coming last in a set of a billion terms: an ordinal numeral.
- Being one of a billion equal parts.
- noun One of a billion equal parts; the quotient of unity divided by a billion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective The ordinal form of the number
one billion . - noun The person or thing in the billionth position.
- noun One of a billion equal parts of a whole.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective the ordinal number of one billion in counting order
- noun one part in a billion equal parts
- noun position 1,000,000,000 in a countable series of things
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Examples
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And ever since that fleeting moment, that one billionth of my lifetime, a mere thought, base though it was, it pops into my head every now and then and makes me feel like the son of Sam of sexual perversion.
One Billionth of a Lifetime vic fortezza 2011
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The portion of what we could see would be much tinier than a layer of paint, or less than one billionth of the known frequencies of light in the Universe.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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The company says its App Store is approaching one billionth download.
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At the end of the billionth cycle, precisely on the dot, the pair, alone in a field of a thousand, began to step forth, from one piece of debris to the next.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Google uses perhaps one-billionth of Watson's resources, or less, to handle each query.
Stephen Baker: Why IBM's Watson Is Smarter Than Google Stephen Baker 2011
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Apple is counting down to its billionth app downloaded.
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When it was announced a couple of weeks ago that Flickr, the photo-hosting site, had hosted its five billionth picture, someone pointed out smugly that Facebook already has over three times that number.
A Flickr of interest… John Naughton 2010
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In the meantime, a few weeks ago, I watched The Sound of Music (for the billionth time).
Archives: Steinkogler Gugelhupf : The Cooking Adventures of Chef Paz 2009
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There is much significance made of the "first living cell", but the simplest replicating units discovered so far are actually ribozymes (RNA enzymes) which have less than a billionth as many atoms as a cell (a cell is a few quadrillion atoms, while a ribozyme is a few tens of thousands, if I understand correctly).
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Google uses perhaps one-billionth of Watson's resources, or less, to handle each query.
Stephen Baker: Why IBM's Watson Is Smarter Than Google Stephen Baker 2011
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