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Ten-thousandth   /tɛn-θˈaʊzəndθ/   Listen
Ten-thousandth

noun
1.
One part in ten thousand equal parts.  Synonym: one-ten-thousandth.






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"Ten-thousandth" Quotes from Famous Books



... follows that even with reference to that kind of imperfect information which we can possess, it is only of about the ten-thousandth part of the accessible parts of the earth that has been examined properly. Therefore, it is with justice that the most thoughtful of those who are concerned in these inquiries insist continually upon ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

... in my path one of my old acquaintances. I had had a consultation one day with the famous homoeopath, Dr. Zwanzig; and as we walked away we were busily discussing the case of a poor consumptive fellow who had previously lost a leg. In consequence of this defect, Dr. Zwanzig considered that the ten-thousandth of a grain of Aur.[D] would be an over-dose, and that it must be fractioned so as to allow for the departed leg, otherwise the rest of the man would be getting a leg-dose too much. I was particularly ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 • Various

... diameter of the earth, which may be signified by that inch. When therefore I delineate a triangle on paper, and take one side not above an inch, for example, in length to be the radius, this I consider as divided into 10,000 or 100,000 parts or more; for, though the ten-thousandth part of that line considered in itself is nothing at all, and consequently may be neglected without an error or inconveniency, yet these described lines, being only marks standing for greater quantities, whereof it may be the ten—thousandth ...
— A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge • George Berkeley

... elementary forms, such as the minute particles which make up the bluish film on damp rocks, but they are of a vegetal character, or below it. They give us some idea of the very earliest forms of life; minute living particles, with no organs, down to the ten-thousandth part of an inch in diameter. The amoeba represents the lowest animal, and, as we saw, the ovum in many cases resembles an amoeba. We therefore take some such one-celled creature as our first animal ancestor. Taking food in at all parts of its ...
— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various

... twenty-five francs—being, in fact, but one-third of a penny different from the value of a pound sterling. For the subdivisions the point of union must be decimally divided, and M. de Saussure would give the name of speso to a ten-thousandth ...
— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis

... It had to balance perfectly or it would vibrate intolerably. If it vibrated at all it would shake itself to pieces, or, failing that, send aging sound waves through all the Platform's substance. If it vibrated by the least fraction of a ten-thousandth of an inch, it would wear, and vibrate more strongly, and destroy itself and possibly the Platform. It needed the precision of an astronomical telescope's lenses—multiplied! And it was bent. It was exactly as useless as if it had never been made ...
— Space Platform • Murray Leinster

... Infinity to thee From thee to Nothing.—On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where one step broken the great scale's destroyed From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten-thousandth, ...
— The Illustrated London Reading Book • Various

... England—at least, I had no reason to be ashamed of my company. Yes; I too, like Crossthwaite, took the upper classes at their word; bowed down to the idol of political institutions, and pinned my hopes of salvation on "the possession of one ten-thousandth part of a talker in the national palaver." True, I desired the Charter, at first (as I do, indeed, at this moment), as a means to glorious ends—not only because it would give a chance of elevation, ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al



Words linked to "Ten-thousandth" :   common fraction, simple fraction



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