100 has definitions from the field of mathematics
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[ adjective ] being ten more than ninety

Used in print

(The Atlanta Constitution...)

Vandiver likely will mention the $ 100 million highway bond issue approved earlier in the session as his first priority item .

("Editorials"...)

Khrushchev threatens us with a 100 - megaton_bomb ?

(The Christian Science Monitor,...)

Earlier this month Edward_R._Murrow , director of the United_States_Information_Agency , came to Hollywood and had dinner with more_than 100 leaders of the motion_picture industry .

(Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)

The dependence of the arc voltage upon the mass flow velocity of the transpirating gas was investigated for various arc lengths and currents between 100 Amp and 200 Amp .

At 100 Amp the 360 cycle ripple was less_than 0.5 V ( peak to peak ) with a resistive load .

Related terms

cardinal

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[ noun ] (mathematics) ten 10s

Used in print

(Grants-in-Aid and Other Financial Assistance...)

In all other States it is the difference obtained by subtracting from 100 the result obtained in item 4 above ; except that no State shall have an allotment percentage less_than 33 - 1 3 % nor more_than 75 % .

In all other States it is the difference obtained by subtracting from 100 the result obtained in item 4 above ; except that no State shall have a Federal share less_than 50 % nor more_than 70 % .

(A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)

What we have left as reasonably comparable are four classes : ( 1 ) body_parts and products , which with a proportionally nearly even representation ( 51 terms out of 253 , 25 out of 100 ) come_out with nearly even ratios ; 2.6 and 2.7 ; ( 2 ) Nature ( 29 terms against 17 ) , ratios 3.3 versus 4.1 ; ( 3 ) adjectives ( 16 , 15 terms ) , ratios 3.9 versus 4.7 ; ( 4 ) verbs ( 9 , 22 terms ) , ratios 4.0 versus 3.4 .

In 1960 , David_D._Thomas published Basic Vocabulary in some Mon_Khmer Languages AL 2 , no. 3 , pp. 7 - 11 ) , which compares 8 Mon-Khmer languages with the I-E language data on which Swadesh based the revised retention rate ( * * f ) in_place_of original ( * * f ) , and his revised 100 word basic glottochronological list in Towards_Greater_Accuracy ( IJAL_21_:_121_-_137 ) .

Thus his persistence values for some stem frequencies per meaning is : stem identical in 8 languages , 100 % ; stem frequencies 7 and 1 , 86 % ; stem frequencies 4 and 4 , 64 % ; stem frequencies 4 , 3 , and 1 , 57 % .

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large_integer

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