MILLIONTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does millionth mean? 

• MILLIONTH (noun)
  The noun MILLIONTH has 2 senses:

1. position 1,000,000 in a countable series of things

2. one part in a million equal parts

  Familiarity information: MILLIONTH used as a noun is rare.

• MILLIONTH (adjective)
  The adjective MILLIONTH has 1 sense:

1. the ordinal number of one million in counting order

  Familiarity information: MILLIONTH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILLIONTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Position 1,000,000 in a countable series of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("millionth" is a kind of...):

rank (relative status)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One part in a million equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

millionth; one-millionth

Hypernyms ("millionth" is a kind of...):

common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)

• MILLIONTH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ordinal number of one million in counting order

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)

 Context examples 

A unit of concentration (molarity unit) equal to one one-millionth of a mole (10E-6 mole) of solute per one liter of solution.

(Micromole per Liter, NCI Thesaurus)

A prefix indicating a quantity of one one-millionth, 10E-6.

(Micro, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of time equal to one millionth of a second.

(Microsecond, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of concentration (molarity unit) equal to one millionth of a mole (10E-6 mole) per milligram of a substance per period of time equal to sixty seconds.

(Micromole per Milligram per Minute, NCI Thesaurus)

By contrast, Earth’s atmosphere is less than one millionth of the total mass of Earth.

(Jupiter’s Jet-Streams Are Unearthly, NASA)

The amount of a substance equal to a millionth of a mole (a measure of the amount of a substance).

(Micromole, NCI Dictionary)

A dose calculation unit equal to one millionth of a gram of a preparation per one kilogram of body mass administered per unit of time equal to one minute.

(Microgram per Kilogram per Minute, NCI Thesaurus)

A traditional unit of linear measurement equal to one-millionth of an inch.

(Microinch, NCI Thesaurus)

Unit of concentration (molarity unit) equal to one millionth of mole of a solute in one deciliter of the solution.

(Micromole per Deciliter, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit equal to one-millionth of an international unit.

(Microinternational Unit, NCI Thesaurus)