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How To Use thousandth In A Sentence

• The hard disk operates in milliseconds, or thousandths of a second, because it is mechanical.
• They developed a thin glass micropipette (a thousandths of a millimeter in diameter) as a recording electrode. Physiology or Medicine 1991 - Press Release
• Experts say that rice can grow in water that contains no more than a two - thousandth part of salt, but Kien Giang already has a salinisation of twice that level at present. Global Issues News Headlines
• It is 0.5 thousandth, that is, half of a thousandth. CASTRO SPEAKS AT BROADCAST SCHOOL INAUGURATION
• With one one-thousandth of the animation controls - Harryhausen's MEDUSA was tragic, deadly and awesome far beyond the modern Medusa in Leterrier's version. Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
• Science in Philadelphia, there was quite a discussion as to the relative merits of the spherometer test and another form which I shall presently mention, Prof. Harkness claiming that he could, by the use of the spherometer, detect errors bordering closely on one five-hundred-thousandth of an inch. Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885
• Nichols took the opportunity to look the cabin over for the thousandth time. LET NOT THE DEEP
• The battery is kept up by adding every eight days a few thousandths of hydrochloric acid to a vatful of the spirits under treatment, say 5 kilos. of acid to 150 hectoliters of spirits. Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883
• The internationally recognized abbreviation of the meter is m. Meters are divided up into smaller units so a decimeter is one tenth of a meter, a centimeter is one hundredth of a meter, and a millimeter is one thousandth of a meter.
• You probably won’t want to break down the engine to see if the camshaft is a few too many thousandths worn from driving lifter number seven. The RVer’s Bible