Thousandth

/ˈθaʊ.zəndθ/

Meaning & Definition

adjective

being the ordinal number corresponding to one thousand.

This is the thousandth time I've told you to clean your room.

numeral

the number following nine hundred ninety-nine and preceding one thousand; 1/1000.

She finished the race in one thousandth place.

a fractional part of a whole divided into one thousand equal parts.

The recipe requires a thousandth of a teaspoon of salt.

From the word 'thousand' combined with the suffix '-th' to denote ordinality.

thousandth of a second

A very short duration; a minute fraction of time.

one in a thousand

Something that is very rare or unusual.

thousand

The number equivalent to 10^3.

tenth

The ordinal form of the number one-tenth.

A very small amount.

I don't care about a thousandth of a dollar.