Oneth vs Owneth - What's the difference?
oneth | owneth |
'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.
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.