Definition of "thousandth" []

• The ordinal number matching the number 1,000 in a series. (noun)
• One of 1,000 equal parts. (noun)

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• "It is 0.5 thousandth, that is, half of a thousandth."
• "In an instant her mind learns so many things at once that if the imagination and intellect spent years in striving to enumerate them, it could not recall a thousandth part of them."
• "The term means "thousandth-part money," that is, the thousandth part of a _tael_ or Chinese ounce of silver, say one _cash_; and it was originally applied to a tax of one _cash_ per tael on all sales, said to have been voluntarily imposed on themselves by the people, as a temporary measure, with a view to make up the deficiency in the land-tax caused by the rebellion."