Billionth

/ˈbɪljənθ/ adjective, noun

Describing something in the position of number one billion in a sequence, or the fraction 1/1,000,000,000.

From 'billion' plus the ordinal suffix '-th,' following the same pattern as 'millionth' and 'thousandth.' Billion itself comes from French 'bi-' (two) plus '-llion,' originally meaning a million million.

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