How To Use Thousandth In A Sentence
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The hard disk operates in milliseconds, or thousandths of a second, because it is mechanical.
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They developed a thin glass micropipette (a thousandths of a millimeter in diameter) as a recording electrode.
Physiology or Medicine 1991 - Press Release
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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
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It is 0.5 thousandth, that is, half of a thousandth.
CASTRO SPEAKS AT BROADCAST SCHOOL INAUGURATION
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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.
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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
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Nichols took the opportunity to look the cabin over for the thousandth time.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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The magazine has just published its six thousandth edition.
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No need of memory when you roared it over and over for the thousandth time till half the inn was a-knock at the door to spit you for the sleep killer you were.
Chapter 11
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Like the gray, the sievert is a large unit and for normal radiation protection levels a series of prefixes are used: nanoSievert (nSv) is one thousand millionth of a Sievert (1/1,000,000,000) microSievert (µSv) is one millionth of a Sievert (1/1,000,000) milliSievert (mSv) is one thousandth of a Sievert (1/1,000)
Radiation units
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At the finish line, Fulks nosed ahead for the win by just two-thousandths of a second.
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Engine oscillation is held to a few thousandths of a millimeter.
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`Top of his class," Jefferson said, and Mahoney wondered for the thousandth time how the man could have no doubts.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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The bugs are only a few thousandths of a millimetre across and lack the cell walls which most bacteria have.
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The spacing of the rods, each of which measured one thousandth of a millimetre wide, alters a property of the material known as the refractive index, which changes the speed of light inside it.
The Guardian World News
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Jupiter from his rotation has not the fifty thousandth part of his revolutional moment of momentum, while the earth's rotational share is not one ten thousandth part of that of
Time and Tide A Romance of the Moon
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Ricin has no known antidote, and a thousandth of a gram is enough to kill an adult.
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Just as it began to get dark, Jimbo looked at the house for the thousandth time and said,'We're such a couple of dopes.
LOST BOY LOST GIRL
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Both are sold in grades by thickness, measured in mils (one-thousandth of an inch).
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Smaller units of time are measured in milliseconds which are one thousandth of a second and microseconds, which are one millionth of a second.
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GALL recommends that the quantity of acids be reduced to 6-1/2, or at most 7 thousandths of OTTO'S acidimeter, and the results have shown that this was about the right proportion; as the wines in which the acids were thus diluted were in favor with all consumers.
The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines
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A thousandth of a sievert, which has no detectable effect on health, is called a millisievert.
In Japan, Let's Stop Sweating The Small (Nuclear) Stuff
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She jumped a series of hurdles for what seemed like the thousandth time, and then looked up at the wall in front of her.
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The term means "thousandth-part money," that is, the thousandth part of a _tael_ or Chinese ounce of silver, say one _cash_; and it was originally applied to a tax of one _cash_ per tael on all sales, said to have been voluntarily imposed on themselves by the people, as a temporary measure, with a view to make up the deficiency in the land-tax caused by the rebellion.
China and the Manchus
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He studied his walk, his body movements, stripped him again and again and for the thousandth time made him flex all his muscles.
THE END OF THE STORY
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Many bigger sums than that -- ay, hundreds and thousands of dollars had I played away -- but they had none of them cost me the hundredth or thousandth part of the trouble to get that these twenty dollars fifty had; two full months had I been slavin 'away in the woods and prairies to airn them, and I caught the fever there.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
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The city will celebrate its thousandth anniversary tomorrow.
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The bugs are only a few thousandths of a millimetre across and lack the cell walls which most bacteria have.
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A nanometer is one-thousandth of a micron, which is one millionth of a meter.
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Recent sediments consist of uncompacted and uncemented sands, clays, and silts, and they have a strength of the order of one thousandth that of many strong metamorphosed basement, or igneous, rocks.
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As a sidetrack, I might mention that my post of two days ago was my thousandth… yep, this one will be number 1003.
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The gardens' Millennium maze, which is constructed from stones arranged in the shape of the ancient fylfot symbol carved in a rock on Ilkley Moor, recently had its thousandth and final stone laid.
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The firm notes on its Web site that the process can create objects with high precision at scales of less than a thousandth of a millimeter.
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Numerically controlled machine tools were developed, programmed to shape metal to an accuracy of less than a thousandth of an inch.
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“I must not stay,” Graham reiterated for the thousandth time.
CHAPTER XXVII
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With a flash duration of one hundred-thousandth of a second, the stroboscope finally revealed the motion of wings that had been too fast for other cameras to capture.
Birdology
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By the mid 1990s, scientists were building powerful lasers whose pulses were measured not in billionths or even trillionths of seconds but in thousandths of trillionths of seconds, or femtoseconds.
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At its present point of vivification the scarecrow reminds me of some of the lukewarm and abortive characters composed of heterogeneous materials used for the thousandth time, and never worth using, with which romance writers (and myself, no doubt, among the rest) have so overpeopled the world of fiction.
Short Stories of Various Types
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The four small light blue rectangles at the midpoints of the membrane perimeter are chip-scale refrigerators that cooled the cube and membrane to only a few hundred thousandths of a degree above absolute zero.
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Most doctors define mild neutropenia as neutrophil levels from 1000 to 1500 neutrophils per milliliter (one-thousandth of a liter; also called a cubic centimeter) of blood.
CancerConsultants
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A millirem is a thousandth of a rem, the basic unit used to measure radiation doses in the United States.
The Case for Mars
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In this context, time is measured in milliseconds - thousandths of a second.
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The chronoscope here measures the reaction times and association times in thousandths of a second; the kymograph, by the help of the sphygmograph, writes the record of the pulse and its changes in emotional states, while the pneumograph records the variations of breathing, and the plethysmograph shows the changes in the filling of blood vessels in the limbs which is immediately related to the blood supply of the brain.
Psychotherapy
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And for the thousandth time I wondered why he left it to me in his will.
A CONVICTION OF GUILT
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She retrieved the deck of cards and returned to the table to play what was probably her one thousandth game of solitaire since arriving at the prison.
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By means of a pipette graduated to 0.01 c.c. it is possible to deliver very small quantities; but if the calculated amount runs into thousandth parts of a cubic centimetre, these are replaced by corresponding quantities of normal or even decinormal soda.
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
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The magazine has just published its six thousandth edition.
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In an arithmetic lesson on "Multiplication of Decimals," in a Form IV class, the preparation should involve a review of the meaning of decimals, of the interconversion of decimals and fractions (for example, .05 = 5 hundredths; 27 ten-thousandths = .0027, etc.); and of the multiplication of fractions.
Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education
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However, unlike its stable family members, darmstadtium decays after a fraction of a thousandth of a second by emitting alpha particles - fast moving helium-like particles.
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My counter for this website records that the site has just received its ten thousandth visitor.
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This was to make sure any potential event could be timed to the nearest thousandth of a second.
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The phone rings for the thousandth time.
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In fact, with the laser set to a mere 6 milliwatts - - six thousandths of a Watt - the material became 50 percent softer than usual.
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The firm notes on its Web site that the process can create objects with high precision at scales of less than a thousandth of a millimeter.
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Covering less than one-thousandth of the page, along with their colour combination of yellow on white, makes them invisible to the naked eye, Crean says.
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The acidimeter referred to was afterwards improved, by making the tube longer and more narrow, and dividing it into tenths of per cents, instead of fourths; thus dividing the whole above 0 into thousandths.
The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines
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A nanometer is one-thousandth of a micron, which is one millionth of a meter.
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The resolution of this addressing technique is about two thousandths of a millimetre - over a length of one millimetre, therefore, several hundred qubits could be stored.
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In an instant her mind learns so many things at once that if the imagination and intellect spent years in striving to enumerate them, it could not recall a thousandth part of them.
The Interior Castle or The Mansions
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It was published in the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute (1896) and contains a description of a time-apparatus capable of measuring time intervals of a hundred-thousandth of a second.
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A nanometer is one-thousandth of a micron, which is one millionth of a meter.
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For they don't, else would the thousandth pipe of opium be provocative of similar delights to the first, else would one cocktail, instead of several, produce an equivalent glow after a year of cocktails.
Chapter 30
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“Anything is possible,” I said for perhaps the thousandth time in my life.
The Bird House
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Areas of land are calculated in square decameters, the decameter being approximately twenty-five one-thousandths of an acre.
The Metric System
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A thousandth of a sievert, which has no detectable effect on health, is called a millisievert.
In Japan, Let's Stop Sweating The Small (Nuclear) Stuff
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A unit of magnetic field strength equal to one hundred thousandth ( 10 - 5 ) of an oersted.
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Plastic shopping bags are currently about 15 microns thick (a micron is a thousandth of a millimetre).
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If I was involved in an undertaking with a thousandth as much at stake, I would want to look my confederates in the eye to see how they reacted to what I said.
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Hooniah disclaimed for the thousandth time to her Thlinget sisters.
THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
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The company says the cells are less than 50 microns, or less than two-thousandths of an inch, making them the thinnest in production, and bifacial, meaning they can capture sun energy from both faces.
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She wondered, for the thousandth time, what a windlute was; yet much of beauty, much of beyondness, she sensed of this dimly remembered beautiful mother of hers.
CHAPTER VI
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The current is of such high frequency that it flows along the metal surface to a depth of several thousandths of an inch.
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A millimeter is one - thousandth of a meter.
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Engine oscillation is held to a few thousandths of a millimeter.
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But a speaker must try to make the thousandth repetition of a truth fresh to himself, and not a wearisome form, or a dead commonplace, by freshening it to his own mind and by living on it in his own practice, and the hearers must remember that it is only the completeness of their obedience that antiquates the commandment.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
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A unit of length equal to one thousandth ( 10 - 3 ) of a millimeter or one millionth ( 10 - 6 ) of a meter.
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Chakrabarti says her method should work for satellites as small as one one-thousandth the mass of the host galaxy.
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While tons of chemical fuel are needed to propel a human mission to Mars, just tens of milligrams of antimatter will do (a milligram is about one-thousandth the weight of a piece of the original M&M candy).
April 2006
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Also for the thousandth time, this is completely and utterly wrong.
Matthew Yglesias » Corker Admits Affordable Care Act Won’t Be Repealed
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The magazine has just published its six thousandth edition.
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Not all of us read this blog to find the thousandth list of the best burger in manhattan. that’s what chowhound is for.
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