trillionth

Thân thiện

A scientist carefully measures one trillionth of a gram of a substance.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Coming after the nine hundred ninety-nine billion, nine hundred ninety-nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-ninth in a series; being one of a trillion equal parts. It denotes the position in an ordered sequence or a specific fractional portion of a whole divided into one trillion equal segments.

2. Noun:

   • One of a trillion equal parts of a whole. It is the singular unit of measurement when something is divided into one trillion equal parts.
   • The member of a series numbered with the ordinal number trillionth. It refers to the item in the trillionth position in a sequence.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • This is the trillionth star cataloged by the new space telescope.
  • A trillionth of a second is an almost incomprehensibly short period of time.
• Noun:
  • A nanometer is one trillionth of a meter.
  • He was the trillionth visitor to the website and won a prize.

Advanced Usage

• Hyper-precise measurement: The word is frequently used in scientific contexts, particularly physics and chemistry, to describe minuscule quantities, such as time intervals (picoseconds), distances, or concentrations.
  • The laser pulse lasted only a few trillionths of a second.
• Figurative use for emphasis: It can be used hyperbolically to express an extremely large count or an infinitesimally small chance.
  • I feel like I've explained this a trillionth time. (Emphasizing repetition)
  • There's only a trillionth of a chance that will happen. (Emphasizing extreme improbability)

Variants and Related Words

• Trillion (cardinal number, noun): The number 1,000,000,000,000 (10^12 in the short scale system used in the US and modern British English). It can also mean an indefinitely large number.
• Trillionfold (adverb/adjective): By a factor of one trillion; multiplied by one trillion.

Synonyms

• Adjective (ordinal): (There is no common single-word synonym for this specific ordinal number)
• Noun (fraction): One part per trillion.

Related Phrases

• One in a trillion: An idiom describing something or someone extremely rare, unique, or improbable.
  • Finding a fossil that well-preserved is like finding one in a trillion.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. the ordinal number of one trillion in counting order

Noun

1. one part in a trillion equal parts

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