one-ten-thousandth

Examples

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• 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

T

ten-thousandth

vsone-ten-thousandth

1 6.0

One equal part of something divided into ten thousand parts

has identical meaning but differs only in written form

How Large

one-half

61 1.0

one-tenth

18 1.0

one-hundredth

3 1.6

one-thousandth

1 3.6

one-ten-thousandth

1 7.9

one-hundred-thousandth

8.0

one-millionth

1 3.6

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Etymology