Thousandth

(noun.) position 1,000 in a countable series of things.

(adj.) the ordinal number of one thousand in counting order .

录入:米歇尔

• Hence very few of the original species will have transmitted offspring to the fourteen-thousandth generation. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• One-thousandth part of the acid introduced into a vat of gelatine or into decoctions of animal matter, prevents their undergoing decomposition for an indefinite period of time. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• He that kills a breeding-sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• With this he applied to the original record a film of gold probably no thicker than one three-hundred-thousandth of an inch, or several hundred times less than the depth of an average wave. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• That was not very accurate by present-day standards of the thousandth part of an inch, for a shilling is about one-sixteenth of an inch in thickness. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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