millionth
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- noun
- /ˈmɪljənθ/
- Specialized
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millonésima
- Nanotubes are only one nanometer wide—less than a millionth of an inch.
- millionth of an inch
- one millionth
- millionth of a second
And it was like, you know, one, one millionth of what I did, right?
- And it was like, you know, one, one millionth of what I did, right?
- It's a millionth of a billionth of a meter.
- That means millionths of a second or trillionths of a second.
Examples
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I don't have a millionth of your experience, you know.
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The beam from this laser can be regulated to one millionth of a millimeter.
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And of those, about one out of a million people died.
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And it was like, you know, one, one millionth of what I did, right?
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What would happen to you or I if we lost one millionth of this amount...?
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So if the internal clock is off by one millionth of a second.
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It's not a major deal; the millionth part of anything is nothing.
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Whereas this method over here would use like a one millionth of a percent of the paper or something very tiny amount.
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The samples were on the scale of mere millionths or billionths of a meter.
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The doctor explained that even a millionth of a gram of the toxin could be dangerous.
Synonyms
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One of a million equal parts of a whole
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Etymology
Millionth comes from the word million, which comes from Italian milione built from mille meaning 'thousand', so a million was thought of as a 'big thousand'. So a millionth is one tiny part, 'one part out of a million', which is why the word means a very small fraction.