Billionth (Noun)
Meaning 1
Position 1,000,000,000 in a countable series of things.
Classification
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas.
Examples
- The company is preparing to sell its billionth mobile phone this quarter.
- She was the billionth person to walk across the famous bridge since its opening.
- The billionth unit of this product model went into production last month.
- It is estimated that the population of the country will reach a billionth of the world's population by 2030.
- The company gave away a car to the customer who bought their billionth car.
Meaning 2
One part in a billion equal parts.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The odds of winning the contest were one in a billion, so she felt like the billionth person to hold the winning ticket was walking out the door.
- One billionth of a second might seem like an instant, but in the world of high-speed photography, it's an eternity.
- A leak that allowed one billionth of the total volume to escape each day was considered negligible by the engineers.
- The chemists calculated the impurities to be present in a concentration of one billionth, which was considered acceptable for their experiment.
- A billionth of the population would be roughly the number of people in a small city, according to the demographer's estimates.