hundred and twentieth

/ˈhʌndrəd ənd ˈtwɛntiəθ/
noun
  1. One of 120 equal parts of a whole.
    • The recipe called for a hundred-and-twentieth of a teaspoon of salt.
    • He owned a hundred-and-twentieth of the company's shares.
    • Only a hundred-and-twentieth of the budget was spent on decorations.
adjective
  1. Coming after the hundred-and-nineteenth in a sequence; ordinal form of 120.
    • He celebrated his hundred-and-twentieth birthday with a small party.
    • The hundred-and-twentieth chapter of the book was the most exciting.
    • She finished in hundred-and-twentieth place in the marathon.
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