Millionth
['mɪljənθ]
Definition
(noun.) position 1,000,000 in a countable series of things.
(adj.) the ordinal number of one million in counting order .
Typed by Borg--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by one million; one of a million equal parts.
Checker: Witt
Examples
- Kirchhoff and Bunsen that the eighteen-millionth part of a grain of sodium may be detected. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They may metaphorically be called cousins to the same millionth degree, yet they differ widely and in different degrees from each other. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- His experiments had already resulted in the production of an almost absolute vacuum, only one-millionth part of an atmosphere being left in the tube. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Edison had tested his tasimeter, and was satisfied that it would measure down to the millionth part of a degree Fahrenheit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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