thousandth
pronunciation
How to pronounce thousandth in British English:
UK [ˈθaʊznθ]
How to pronounce thousandth in American English:
US [ˈθaʊzəndθ, -zənθ]
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- Noun:
- position 1,000 in a countable series of things
- one part in a thousand
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- Adjective:
- the ordinal number of one thousand in counting order
Word Origin
- thousandth (adj.)
- 1550s, from thousand + -th (1).
Example
- 1. It was the thousandth business to go bust .
- 2. Sensitive to changes in temperature of two thousandth of a degree fahrenheit .
- 3. Although this represents less than a thousandth of the total , it is enough to draw tentative conclusions when compared with the genomes of modern humans and chimpanzees
- 4. The threshold level at which some kind of reaction can occur may be less than a thousandth of a potentially fatal dose , so where do you draw the line ?
- 5. If you really want me to say that a data , I can only say that one ten thousandth .