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Hundredth vs Centesimal - What's the difference?

hundredth | centesimal |

As adjectives the difference between hundredth and centesimal

is that hundredth is the ordinal form of the number one hundred while centesimal is divided into a hundred parts.

As a noun hundredth

is the person or thing in the hundredth position.

hundredth

English

Adjective

(-)
  • The ordinal form of the number one hundred.
  • * 2012 March 15, Bruce Springsteen, keynote speech, South by Southwest Music Conference :
    • This being Woodie Guthrie’s a hundredth birthday, in the centerpiece of this year’s South by Southwest Conference, I’m also gonna talk a little bit about my musical development and where it intersected with Woodie’s and why.

    Abbreviations

    * , 100th

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The person or thing in the hundredth position.
  • One of a hundred equal parts of a whole. Called also percent.

    • See also

    * one-hundredth

    centesimal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Divided into a hundred parts
  • Describing a hundredth part

    • Anagrams

    * *