THOUSANDTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thousandth mean? 

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

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

2. one part in a thousand equal parts

  Familiarity information: THOUSANDTH used as a noun is rare.

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

1. the ordinal number of one thousand in counting order

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THOUSANDTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Position 1,000 in a countable series of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

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

rank (relative status)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One part in a thousand equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

one-thousandth; thousandth

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

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

• THOUSANDTH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ordinal number of one thousand in counting order

Synonyms:

1000th; thousandth

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

A unit of energy equal to one thousandth electronvolt (10E-3 electronvolt).

(Millielectronvolt, NCI Thesaurus)

A dose administration rate unit equal to the rate at which one thousandth of a gram of a product is delivered or administered over the time period of one week.

(Milligram per Week, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Milligram per Kilogram per Minute, NCI Thesaurus)

This star is about twice the mass of the Sun but is just four million years old — just a thousandth of the age of the Sun.

(ALMA Discovers Trio of Infant Planets around Newborn Star, ESO)

A unit of relative amount of substance content equivalent to the content at which one millionth of a gram of mixture contains one thousandth of an equivalent of a component.

(Milliequivalent per Microgram, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of relative amount of substance content equivalent to the content at which one kilogram of mixture contains one thousandth of an equivalent of a component.

(Milliequivalent per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of relative amount of a substance equal to one thousandth of an equivalent weight.

(Milliequivalent, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of relative amount of substance content equivalent to the content at which one milligram of mixture contains one thousandth of an equivalent of a component.

(Milliequivalent per Milligram, NCI Thesaurus)

A metric unit of mass equal to one thousandth of a gram or 1000 micrograms.

(Milligram, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Milliinternational Unit, NCI Thesaurus)