millionth

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   occupying position 1,000,000 in an ordered sequence

   The archive scanned its millionth page this morning.

2. 2
   noun

   one of one million equal parts of a whole

   A micrometer measures one millionth of a meter.

Formed from million + -th, the English suffix used to make ordinal numbers and fractional nouns. Million entered English through French from Italian milione, literally an augmentative of mille ("thousand").

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