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ten-thousandth

ten-thousandth

1 6.0
One equal part of something divided into ten thousand parts
  • noun
  • /ˌtɛnˈθaʊzəndθ/
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  • Let's call that .0003 Anum, or 3 cents where a cent is one ten-thousandth of one's annual wage.
  • ten-thousandth of an inch
  • one ten-thousandth
  • only a ten-thousandth

Examples

  • 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)

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

    Fantastic Voyage (1966)

  • 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)

  • If you divide the cake into ten thousand equal pieces, each piece is one ten-thousandth of the whole cake.

  • In a survey, one ten-thousandth of the participants reported feeling unwell after the event.

  • The engineer ensured that the measurements were accurate to within one ten-thousandth of a millimeter.

Synonyms

one-ten-thousandth
vsten-thousandth
1 7.9

One part of ten thousand equal parts

is given in words instead of numeric fraction or decimal

Surface Forms

ten-thousandth singular
ten-thousandths plural

Morphology

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

The ordinal is formed by adding the standard ordinal suffix '-th' to the clear numeral base 'ten thousand'.

Etymology

The word ten-thousandth is built from the number words ten and thousand and the ending -th, which turns a number into an order or part. So a ten-thousandth means 'one of ten thousand parts', just like a hundredth is one of a hundred.