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Ones vs Oneth - What's the difference?

ones | oneth |

As nouns the difference between ones and oneth

is that ones is while oneth is a fractional part of an integer ending in one.

As an adjective oneth is

'first', or other ordinal derivatives of 'one', such as hundred-and-oneth'' or ''minus-oneth .

ones

English

Noun

(head) plural
  • Usage notes

    * Ones is not the possessive pronoun, which is spelled one's.

    Anagrams

    * * * * * * * * ---- ==Volapük==

    Pronoun

    (head)
  • oneth

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • 'first', or other ordinal derivatives of 'one', such as hundred-and-oneth'' or ''minus-oneth
  • *Soon after the first law of thermodynamics was postulated in the mid nineteenth century, it was realized how the law presupposed a more elementary law, which we now call the zeroth law ... But scientists soon realized how even the zeroth law was too advanced, since it presupposed a yet more elementary law, which explains why the minus-oneth''' law had to be formulated.'' —Paul M. S. Monk, 2008. "Laws and the minus-'''oneth law of thermodynamics", in ''Physical chemistry: understanding our chemical world , p. 8.
  • *(see table 9.1 with row numbers four, ten, and sixteen terminating respectively at the eleventh, twenty-ninth and forty-oneth place)'' —A. R. Rajwade, 2001. ''Convex polyhedra with regularity conditions and Hilbert's third problem? , p. 72.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fractional part of an integer ending in one
  • *about twenty thirty-oneths''' in value of such sales being made as hereinafter mentioned to a syndicate of persons in the United Kingdom, about seven thirty-'''oneths''' to residents in the United States, and about four thirty-'''oneths to residents in other European countries and the colonies.'' —"Brooke & Co. (Limited) ''v.'' Commissioners of Inland Revenue". In ''The Weekly Reporter , vol. XLIV, p. 671, August 15, 1896. Supreme Court of Judicature, House of Lords, London.
  • Synonyms

    * first

    Derived terms

    {{der3, twenty-oneth , thirty-oneth , forty-oneth , fifty-oneth , sixty-oneth , seventy-oneth , eighty-oneth}}