Thousandth
['θaʊzəntθ] or ['θaʊznθ]
Definition
(noun.) position 1,000 in a countable series of things.
(adj.) the ordinal number of one thousand in counting order .
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Definition
(a.) Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing.
(a.) Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth.
(a.) Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided.
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Examples
- Hence very few of the original species will have transmitted offspring to the fourteen-thousandth generation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- One-thousandth part of the acid introduced into a vat of gelatine or into decoctions of animal matter, prevents their undergoing decomposition for an indefinite period of time. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He that kills a breeding-sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- With this he applied to the original record a film of gold probably no thicker than one three-hundred-thousandth of an inch, or several hundred times less than the depth of an average wave. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That was not very accurate by present-day standards of the thousandth part of an inch, for a shilling is about one-sixteenth of an inch in thickness. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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