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one-ten-thousandth

one-ten-thousandth

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One part of ten thousand equal parts
  • noun
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  • It's less than one ten-thousandth of an inch thick.

Examples

  • The rate of mass loss is modest, such that the Sun will blow out only about one ten-thousandth of its mass from now to the end of its life as an ordinary main-sequence star, five billion years in the future.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Each cell produces about one ten-thousandth of a volt.

  • Human beings have about the same density as water, so the displacement increase would only be about one ten-thousandth as well.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • The time of arrival of each gamma ray is measured to better than one ten-thousandth of a second, permitting, for example, the detailed study of pulsars.

    Academic text (1990)
  • All the megatonnage in our nuclear arsenals yield but one ten-thousandth the power of the asteroid that might have triggered the Cretaceous mass extinction.

    Academic text (1990)
  • MSRs produce them at much lower rates and recycle them; thus, the long-lived radiotoxicity of MSR waste is one-ten-thousandth that of an LWR.

    Academic text (2010)
  • If a firm has a million shares outstanding and you buy 100 of them, you own one ten-thousandth of the company.

  • It is less than one ten-thousandth of an inch thick.

Synonyms

ten-thousandth
vsone-ten-thousandth
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One equal part of something divided into ten thousand parts

has identical meaning but differs only in written form

How Large

one-half
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one-tenth
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one-ten-thousandth
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Surface Forms

Morphology

one-ten-thousandth = ten-thousandth (transparent) = one + ten + thousand + th

The term is a transparent numerical construction: 'one' + 'ten-thousandth' denotes the fraction 1/10,000.

Etymology

The word one-ten-thousandth is built from one, ten, thousand and the ending -th, which is the same ending in fourth and means 'part of', so it literally means 'one part of ten thousand'. That's why it refers to the fraction 1/10,000 or the decimal 0.0001.