thousandth
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- noun
- /ˈθaʊzəndθ/
- The race was decided by a thousandth of a second, making it one of the closest finishes ever.
- one thousandth
- thousandth of a second
- thousandth of a degree
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Watch on YouTubeYou want to be working in the sub, you know, like right around a thousandth or two.
- You want to be working in the sub, you know, like right around a thousandth or two.
- You can actually flash an order on some of the exchanges that lasts a thousandth of a second.
- So it would be a thousandth of his net worth to to do that, which is is not a lot of money to him.
Examples
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Perfect to a thousandth of an inch.
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Measures weight down to a thousandth of a pound.
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So it would be a thousandth of his net worth to to do that, which is is not a lot of money to him.
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Like one thousandth percent of that.
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By a thousandth of a second.
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I probably inherited one thousandth of my father's talent.
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Remember, one million years is less than one-thousandth of the age of the universe.
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Modelers are faced with time-varying patterns requiring resolution down to a thousandth of a second.
Academic text (2011) -
How two riders with styles as different as Stoner's and Lorenzo's can go round a three-mile race track within a thousandth of a second of each other.
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A typical radial thread of an ecribellate orb web is about 5 microns (a micron is a thousandth of a millimeter).
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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One of a thousand equal parts of something
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The position after nine hundred ninety-nine in a list
Compounds
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One of one hundred thousand equal parts or the position number for one hundred thousand
How Small
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Thousandth comes from an old English word thousand meaning 'one thousand' plus the ending -th that turns a number into a part or an order. So a thousandth is literally one of a thousand equal parts.