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Vinony

thousandth

noun

  1. ordinal number word
L329275 on Wikidata ↗

adjective

No English definition recorded for this entry.

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈθaʊzən(d)θ/ / /ˈθaʊzən(d)ð/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English thousand English -th English thousandth From thousand + -th (suffix forming an ordinal number).

  1. The ordinal numeral form of one thousand; last in order of a series of a thousand; next after the nine hundred and ninety-ninth.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English thousand English -th English thousandth From thousand + -th (suffix forming an ordinal number).

  1. The person or thing in the thousandth position.
  2. One of a thousand equal parts of a whole.

    ““Ah, Alan,” murmured Dorian, with a sigh, “I wish you had a thousandth part of the pity for me that I have for you.””

    “We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life spans of a couple octillion attoseconds. And an attosecond is an eternity compared with the lifetime of the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for one-thousandth of an attosecond before decaying.”