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thousandth

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1. thousandth - Noun

2. thousandth - Adjective

3. thousandth - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing.

Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth.

Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time.

The quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. Albert Einstein

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already. Anthony Powell

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us? Augustus Hare

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war. Bao Dai

Thus if just once you tasted the thousandth part of joy's flavor, savor from a loving and beloved heart, repentently you'd say: "Lost is all that time I didn't spend in love!" Torquato Tasso

Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree. Anna Akhmatova

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