one hundred thousandth

/wʌn ˈhʌndrəd ˈθaʊzənθ/
noun
  1. One of 100,000 equal parts of a whole.
    • A one-hundred-thousandth of the population was affected.
    • The error was only one one-hundred-thousandth of an inch.
    • They measured the concentration to a one-hundred-thousandth of a percent.
adjective
  1. Being the ordinal number for 100,000 in a sequence; the last in a series of 100,000.
    • The company produced its one-hundred-thousandth car this month.
    • The museum welcomed its one-hundred-thousandth visitor yesterday.
    • He was the one-hundred-thousandth person to sign the petition.
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