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Hundred is used only for a final double zero

Borrowed from English hundred.

hundred

  1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for 00.

Used only for whole hundreds (a final 00 in a number), and then only for distances (including altitudes). Thus 10,900 m is one zero thousand nine hundred meter, but 10,946 m is one zero thousand nine four six meter and 200° is two zero zero degree.

ICAO/NATO radiotelephonic clear codes

Alfa Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliett Kilo Lima Mike
November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey Xray Yankee Zulu
zero one two three (tree) four (fower) five (fife) six seven eight nine (niner) hundred thousand decimal
  1. ^ Annex 10 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation: Aeronautical Telecommunications; Volume II Communication Procedures including those with PANS status‎[1], 6th edition, International Civil Aviation Organization, October 2001, archived from the original on 31 March 2019, page §5.2.1.4.3.1

English numbers (edit) | | 1,000 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ | --- | | --------------------------------------------------- | | ← 90 | ← 99 | 100 | | 200 → | | | 10 | | | | | | Cardinal: hundred Ordinal: hundredth Abbreviated ordinal: 100th Multiplier: hundredfold Latinate multiplier: centuple Germanic collective: hundred Collective of n parts: centuplet Metric collective prefix: hecto- Metric fractional prefix: centi- Elemental: centuplet Number of years: century, centennium | | | | |

From Middle English hundred, from Old English hundred, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”), a neuter variant of *radō (“row, line, series”).[1] Compare West Frisian hûndert, Dutch honderd, Low German hunnert, hunnerd, German Hundert, Danish hundred.

hundred (plural hundreds)

  1. A numerical value equal to 100 (102), occurring after ninety-nine.
    Synonyms: cent (obsolete except in per cent), fivescore (archaic), one hundred, short hundred, teenty (nonstandard)
    hundreds of thousands of faces.
    a/one hundred
    A few hundred pounds' worth of chicken and serveral dozen eggs.
    The numbers totaled in the hundreds.
    Many hundreds more people
    • 2022 April 21, Rosa Flores, Rosalina Nieves and Amir Vera, “CBP allows a few hundred vulnerable migrants to seek asylum this week as thousands wait in Mexico for Title 42 to end, sources say”, in CNN‎[4]:
      A few hundred migrants who have been waiting in Reynosa, Mexico, for the end of the US pandemic public health order, known as Title 42, were allowed to seek asylum this week, sources on the ground told CNN.
    • 2025 March 10, Karina Tsui and Elizabeth Wolfe, “Department of Education investigating 60 colleges and universities over antisemitism claims”, in CNN‎[5]:
      The announcement comes amid mounting pressure on university administrators to rein in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, which have erupted periodically on college campuses across the country over the past year and led to the arrest of hundreds of demonstrators.
  2. (24-hour clock) The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.
    • 2002, Michael Prescott, Next Victim, Signet, page 185:
      “Okay. You head over to City Hall East. I'll meet you there. The briefing starts at eleven hundred, sharp.”

Unlike cardinal numerals up to ninety-nine, the word hundred is a noun like dozen and needs a determiner or other modifier to function as a numeral.

Hundred can be used also in plurals. It doesn't take -s when preceded by a determiner.

In telling military time, "hundred" is typically only used for exact hours, e.g. 09:00 is "oh nine hundred" and 21:00 is "twenty-one hundred", while 03:30 is "oh three thirty". Sometimes, nonstandardly (e.g. in fiction by authors not entirely familiar with military time-telling), 03:30 may be read as "oh three hundred thirty".

cardinal number 100

hundred (plural hundreds)

  1. A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
  2. (historical) An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
  3. (by extension, historical) Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
  4. (cricket) A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.
    He made a hundred in the historic match.

hundred-dollar (-euro, etc.) bill

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*radō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 401

From Old Norse hundrað (“hundred”), from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (< Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”).

hundred

  1. hundred

hundred n (plural indefinite hundreder or **hundred, plural definite hundrederne)

  1. a unit of about one hundred

Middle English numbers (edit) | ← 10 | ← 90 | 100 | 1,000 → | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- | --- | ------------------------------------------------------ | | | | 10 | | | | | | Cardinal: hundred Ordinal: hundred Multiplier: hundredfold | | | | |

From Old English hundred, from Proto-West Germanic *hundarad, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą (“hundred”); some forms are remodelled on Old Norse hundrað.

hundred

  1. A hundred; 100.
  2. A large number; a zillion.

Much like modern English hundred, hundred needs a determiner preceding it to function as a number.

hundred (plural hundredes)

  1. A hundredweight.
  2. A hundred (administrative division)
  3. The assembly or court of such a division.

Middle English numbers (edit) | ← 10 | ← 90 | 100 | 1,000 → | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- | --- | ------------------------------------------------------ | | | | 10 | | | | | | Cardinal: hundred Ordinal: hundred Multiplier: hundredfold | | | | |

A combination of specialised use of the cardinal and hundred (“hundred”) +‎ -the (ordinal suffix).

hundred

  1. A hundredth.

Old English numbers (edit)

| | 1,000 | | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | | ← 90 | ← 99 | 100 | 101 → | 200 → | | | 10 | | | | | | Cardinal: hund, hundred, hundtēontiġ Ordinal: hundtēontigoþa Age: hundtēontiġwintre, hundwintre, ānhundwintre Multiplier: hundfeald, hundtēontiġfeald | | | | |

From Proto-Germanic *hundaradą (“hundred”), from *hundą + *radą (“count”), a neuter variant of *radō (“row, line, series”).[1]

Cognate with Old Frisian hundred, Old Saxon hunderod, Old Dutch *hundert, Old High German hundert, Old Norse hundrað.

hundred n

  1. hundred

Strong _a_-stem:

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*radō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 401