Definition of "ninety-ninth" []

• The ordinal form of the number ninety-nine, describing a person or thing in position number 99 of a sequence. (noun)
• One of ninety-nine equal parts of a whole. (noun)

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• "I live in an apartment on the ninety-ninth floor of my block"
• "The question became insistent almost as soon as he entered the US Senate in 2005, though he was then only ninety-ninth in seniority."
• "People in the ninety-fifth to the ninety-ninth percentiles of income have represented a fairly constant share of the national income for twenty-five years now."