one-millionth
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- noun
- /wʌn ˈmɪljənθ/
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un millonésimo
- And, and I know that's a one, one millionth of what a lot of people are going through.
Examples
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A resolution of one-millionth of 1 arc second would be needed to enable telescopes to probe the deepest interiors of active galaxies.
Academic text (1991) -
The lubricant "creeps" into openings as small as one-millionth of an inch and dissolves rust to allow corroded parts to loosen easily.
Academic text (1995) -
What would happen to you or I if we lost one millionth of this amount...?
Blog text (29) -
One millionth of $3.2 trillion is $3.200,000.00 or three million two hundred.
Blog text (29) -
It takes about three one-millionths of a second—a new record.
Fiction book (1997) -
Although the solar wind typically transports less than one-millionth of the Sun's electromagnetic energy (Figure 2), it transfers hundreds of billions to the magnetosphere and ionosphere.
Academic text (2006) -
The female's strawlike mouthparts enable her to pierce the skin of vertebrates and suck up a tiny bit of blood (about one-millionth of a gallon at a sitting).
Academic text (1992) -
Some suggest that cosmic rays themselves cause climate change (for example, by affecting cloud nucleation sites), even though the energy change associated with cosmic-ray variability is one-millionth of the Sun's electromagnetic energy change.
Academic text (2006) -
Each of these molecules contains hundreds of atoms and is less than one-millionth of a millimeter in diameter.
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Its radar cross-section was one-millionth of a square meter.
Synonyms
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One part of a million equal parts
Antonyms
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Etymology
The word one-millionth comes from the parts one and million plus the ending -th, and it means 'one part of a million'. That's why it is the fraction '1/1,000,000', similar to how one-half is '1/2' or one-fourth is '1/4'.