| 单词 | hundred |
| 释义 | hundred /hun"drid/, n. , pl. hundreds, (as after a numeral) hundred, adj. n. 1. a cardinal number, ten times ten. 2. a symbol for this number, as 100 or C. 3. a set of this many persons or things: a hundred of the men. 4. hundreds, a number between 100 and 999, as in referring to an amount of money: Property loss was only in the hundreds of dollars. 5. Informal. a. a hundred-dollar bill. b. the sum of one hundred dollars. 6. (formerly) an administrative division of an English county. 7. a similar division in colonial Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia, and in present-day Delaware. 8. Also called hundred's place. Math. a. (in a mixed number) the position of the third digit to the left of the decimal point. b. (in a whole number) the position of the third digit from the right. adj. 9. amounting to one hundred in number. [bef. 950; ME, OE (c. OFris hundred, OS hundred, ON hundrath, D honderd, G hundert), equiv. to hund 100 (c. Goth hund; akin to L centum, Gk hekatón, Avestan satam, Skt satám, OCS suto, Lith šímtas) + -red tale, count, akin to Goth rathjan to reckon (see READ1)] |
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