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hundred million en · NUM

Meanings

1. The number 100,000,000.
   • During the first few hundred million years, he [Steven M. Stanley] said, this debris often slammed into the Earth and the other planets. 2002 August 23, Associated Press, “Evidence Shows Asteroid Hit Earth 3.5 Billion Years Ago”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2025:
   • Some hundred million women wear diamonds, while millions of others keep them in safe-deposit boxes or strongboxes as family heirlooms. 1982 February, Edward Jay Epstein, “Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?”, in William Whitworth, editor, The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2012:
   • Dr. A[braham] M. Zarem has devised the fastest camera shutter on record. It can operate at a rate of a hundred million exposures a second, which is 25,000 times faster than the shutter used on the fastest commercial motion- picture camera. 1948 May 16, “Fastest Shutter; Hundred Million Film Exposures A Second Now Possible”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2025:

Deriveds

hundred-millionth