| 单词 | millionth part |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmillionth part 1. That is one of a million equal parts into which a whole is or may be divided. Also hyperbolically: infinitesimal, fractional, minute. Chiefly in millionth part. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > million > millionth milli-millesm1650 millionth part1673 millionth1766 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [adjective] > million > millionth millionth1673 1673 J. Flamsteed Let. 7 July in Corr. (1995) I. 209 So that I find the earth is but the millioneth parte of the sun. 1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 312 'Tis not the millioneth part of the universe that is known to us. 1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. 350 The separated particle of gold shall only be the millionth part of the grain. a1853 F. W. Robertson Lect. & Addr. Lit. & Social Topics (1858) i. 14 It is but the millionth part of the injury which may arise from a bad law. 1893 R. S. Ball Story of Sun 94 The millionth part of a second. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. v. 130 Perhaps one of us occasionally does as bad—about a millionth part as bad—as the average employer of labor who skims his profits from the lifeblood of his employees. 1991 A. Milne Fate of Dinosaurs 32 Nanometre: a millionth part of a millimetre. < as lemmas |
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