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14 words match “THOUSANDTH”

THOUSANDTH a. 4 definitions
g last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing.
COCCOBACTERIUM n.
One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.
MICRON n.
A measure of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter.
MILL n.
A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
MILLESIMAL a.
Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions.
MILLI- n.
A prefix denoting a thousandth part of; as, millimeter, milligram, milliampère.
MILLIAMPERE n.
The thousandth part of one ampère.
MILLIGRAM; MILLIGRAMME n.
A measure of weight, in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois.
MILLILITER; MILLILITRE n.
A measure of capacity in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a liter. It is a cubic centimeter, and is equal to .061 of an English cubic inch, or to .0338 of an American fluid ounce.
MILLIMETER; MILLIMETRE n.
A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter.
MILLIWEBER n.
The thousandth part of one weber.
SURFACE TENSION n.
m having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth of a millimeter, is considered to equal the radius of the sphere of molecular action, that is, the greatest distance at which there is cohesion between two particles. Particles lying below this film, being equally acted…
UNDULATORY a.
ions for the extreme violet, and their lengths for the same colors, from the thirty-eight thousandth to the sixty thousandth part of an inch. The theory of ethereal undulations is applicable not only to the phenomena of light, but also to those of heat.
YEAST n.
yeast consists. The yeast plant is composed of simple cells, or granules, about one three-thousandth of an inch in diameter, often united into filaments which reproduce by budding, and under certain circumstances by the formation of spores. The name is extended to other ferments of the same genus. See Saccharomyces. -…