thousandthadj.n.
/ˈθaʊzəndθ/ The ordinal numeral corresponding to the cardinal numeral thousand n. and adj.
A. adj.
1. Coming last in order of a thousand successive individuals.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Thousandth, millesimus.
1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. ii. vii. 73 Though our Computation reach the fixed Stars, or the ninth or tenth, nay, the thousanth Sphere.
1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 246 From Nature's Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire iii. 31 Modern Germany proclaims the era of 843 the beginning of her national existence, and celebrated its thousandth anniversary twenty years ago.
2. thousandth part n. one of a thousand equal parts into which anything may be divided.
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1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. K.ij Ye felt not the thousandeth part of ye delite.
1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §127 The ten thousandth part of that line.
1782 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 165 Pinions..so evenly divided as..to be depended upon..to perhaps the two, three, or four thousandth part of an inch.
1836 J. H. Newman et al. Lyra Apost. 214 Lord! Who Thy thousand years dost wait To work the thousandth part Of Thy vast plan.
B. n.
A thousandth part.
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1793 Young in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 174 In the ox's eye, the diameter of the crystalline is 700 thousandths of an inch.
1867 E. B. Denison Astron. without Math. (ed. 3) 6 Inches about a thousandth longer than our inches.
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