Thousandth

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

““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.”

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