Definition of One-thousandth

1. Noun. One part in a thousand equal parts.

Exact synonyms: Thousandth
Generic synonyms: Common Fraction, Simple Fraction

Lexicographical Neighbors of One-thousandth

one-shots
one-sided
one-sidedly
one-sidedness
one-sidely
one-sixth
one-sixtieth
one-size-fits-all
one-start
one-step
one-step procedure
one-stop
one-stop shop
one-tenth
one-third
one-thousandth (current term)
one-time
one-time pad
one-to-one
one-track
one-track mind
one-trick pony
one-trillionth
one-two
one-two-three
one-two punch
one-two punches
one-twos
one-up
one-up-one-down

Literary usage of One-thousandth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1915)
"were heated by the resistance ribbon, within which region strips of port copper foil one-thousandth of an inch thick were placed in such a manner as to ..."

2. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1919)
"In opening the tool, by turning the thimble to the left, earn space on the thimble represents an opening of one-thousandth of an inch. ..."

3. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1890)
"Previous to this Dr. Moore had made a number of inoculations of guinea pigs with swine plague, which showed that one one-thousandth of a cubic centimeter of ..."

4. Physics by Ernest Fox Nichols (1907)
"that the bodies flying in the cathode stream were masses no greater than the one one-thousandth part of the hydrogen atom. Thus matter, or electricity, ..."

5. The Microscope: An Introduction to Microscopic Methods and to Histology by Simon Henry Gage (1920)
"one thousandth of a millimeter (o.0o1 mm.); ten thousand Angstrom units (1c,ooo AU); one thousand millimicrons dooo my.). Up to the present three such ..."

6. The Congressional Globe ...: 23d Congress to the 42d Congress, Dec. 2, 1833 by United States Congress, Francis Preston Blair, John Cook Rives, Franklin Rives, George A. Bailey (1853)
"With the above allowed deviations of one half of one thousandth in fineness, and one ten thousandth in weight, the variation in intrinsic value of the ingot ..."

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