thousandth
IPA: θˈaʊzʌndθ
noun
- (singular only) The person or thing in the thousandth position.
- One of a thousand equal parts of a whole.
adjective
- The ordinal numeral form of one thousand; last in order of a series of a thousand; next after the nine hundred and ninety-ninth.
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Examples of "thousandth" in Sentences
- It is 0.5 thousandth, that is, half of a thousandth.
- “I must not stay,” Graham reiterated for the thousandth time.
- Also for the thousandth time, this is completely and utterly wrong.
- “Anything is possible,” I said for perhaps the thousandth time in my life.
- He studied his walk, his body movements, stripped him again and again and for the thousandth time made him flex all his muscles.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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