thousandth

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English

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English numbers (edit)
10,000[a], [b]
 ←  100  ←  900 1,000 1,001  → [a], [b], [c] 2,000  → 
100
    Cardinal: thousand
    Ordinal: thousandth
    Multiplier: thousandfold
    Germanic collective: chiliad
    Metric collective prefix: kilo-
    Metric fractional prefix: milli-
    Number of years: millennium, kiloannum, kiloyear

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  • (abbreviations) 1000th, 1000th (also written with a comma following the 1 or, in technical usage, with a thin space following the 1)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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thousandth (not comparable)

  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.

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Noun

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thousandth (plural thousandths)

  1. (singular only) The person or thing in the thousandth position.
  2. One of a thousand equal parts of a whole.

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