thousandth

Etymology

From thousand + -th (suffix forming an ordinal number).

adj

  1. The ordinal numeral form of one thousand; last in order of a series of a thousand; next after the nine hundred and ninety-ninth.

noun

  1. (singular only) The person or thing in the thousandth position.
  2. One of a thousand equal parts of a whole.
    "Ah, Alan," murmured Dorian with a sigh, "I wish you had a thousandth part of the pity for me that I have for you." 1890, Oscar Wilde, chapter XIV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray

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