Pronunciations (3)
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/ˈθaʊzən(d)θ/
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/ˈθaʊzən(d)ð/
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ˈθaʊzəntθ
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.
Usage- not-comparable
Noun
The person or thing in the thousandth position.
Usage- singular
- singular-only
One of a thousand equal parts of a whole.
- Examples
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“Ah, Alan,” murmured Dorian, with a sigh, “I wish you had a thousandth part of the pity for me that I have for you.”
More examples (1)
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.
Adjective
the ordinal number of one thousand in counting order
- Synonyms
Noun
position 1,000 in a countable series of things
- Broader terms
one part in a thousand equal parts
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- Broader terms