thousandth
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| 10,000[a], [b] | ||||
| ← 100 | ← 900 | 1,000 | 1,001 → [a], [b], [c] | 2,000 → |
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| 100 | ||||
| Cardinal: thousand Ordinal: thousandth Multiplier: thousandfold Germanic collective: chiliad Metric collective prefix: kilo- Metric fractional prefix: milli- Number of years: millennium, kiloannum, kiloyear | ||||
Alternative forms
- (abbreviations) 1000th, 1000th (also written with a comma following the 1 or, in technical usage, with a thin space following the 1)
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
thousandth (not comparable)
- The ordinal numeral form of one thousand; last in order of a series of a thousand; next after the nine hundred and ninety-ninth.
Translations
ordinal form of 1000 — see also 1000th
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Noun
thousandth (plural thousandths)
- (singular only) The person or thing in the thousandth position.
- One of a thousand equal parts of a whole.
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XIV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 256:
- “Ah, Alan,” murmured Dorian, with a sigh, “I wish you had a thousandth part of the pity for me that I have for you.”
Translations
the person or thing in the thousandth position
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one of a thousand equal parts of a whole
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See also
- one-thousandth
- one thousandth
- four-thousandth
- three-thousandth
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