Meaning & use

millionth

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The ordinal number matching one million in a sequence, or one of a million equal parts of something.

See it in a sentence

The factory celebrated producing its millionth car.

A millionth of a second is known as a microsecond.

A note on using this word

"Millionth" can function as both an ordinal number (the millionth visitor) and a fraction (a millionth of a gram).

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