fiftieth
Americanadjective
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next after the forty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 50.
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being one of 50 equal parts.
noun
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fiftieths
plural
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a fiftieth part, especially of one (1/50).
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the fiftieth member of a series.
adjective
noun
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one of 50 equal or approximately equal parts of something
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( as modifier )
a fiftieth part
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the fraction equal to one divided by 50 ( 1/ 50 )
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of fiftieth
before 1000; Middle English fiftithe, Old English fīftigotha. See fifty, -th 2
Example Sentences
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It weighs less than one fiftieth of a gram; significantly less than current state-of-the-art pacemakers, which weigh at least five grams.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024
As it celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, the WTA is hoping the new partnership will increase the profile of women's tennis as well as commercial growth and the size of broadcast deals.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2023
"As my term as High Commissioner draws to a close, this Council's milestone fiftieth session will be the last which I brief," she said, without giving a reason.
From Reuters ● Jun. 13, 2022
This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Furman v.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2022
When Jefferson died on July 4, 1826—the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and the same day on which John Adams died—there were still hundreds of enslaved people on his properties.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
One reason to feel glad to be nearly done with this round of fiftieths is that we will no longer be subjected, constantly, to generalizations about the baby-boom generation.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 18, 2019
The thermometers are graduated from 0° to 12° C. or from 8° to 20° C. and each degree is divided into fiftieths.
From Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man by Francis Gano Benedict
Forty-nine fiftieths of the inhabitants of the kingdom, forty-nine fiftieths of the property of the kingdom, almost all the political, legal, and military ability and knowledge to be found in the kingdom, were Protestant.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
In 1864, in a debate on a private member’s bill for extending the suffrage, he declared that the burden of proof lay on those “who would exclude forty-nine fiftieths of the working-classes from the franchise.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
For example: Suppose the diameter of the jaws to measure, when they are close together, 250⁄1000 of an inch, and that the bar be divided into inches and fiftieths.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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