| 单词 | one-thousandth |
| 例句 | As an example, let’s say that you challenge me with a distance of one-thousandth of a foot. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But I had not guessed one-thousandth of it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Coach is always saying we shouldn’t chase personal records, but we all know there will be a huge celebration when Terrell scores his one-thousandth point. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the molecule, it measures twenty-three angstroms—one-thousandth of one-thousandth of a millimeter. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Advanced signal-processing techniques originally developed for the petroleum industry allowed them to spot layers just 20 microns thick — less than one-thousandth of an inch. Scanners find secrets from Picasso’s ‘Blue Period’ 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Though admission is free, he encourages each visitor to donate one one-thousandth of their annual income. At Woodrow Wilson Plaza, a Portal to connect with faraway strangers 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z In fact, at the center of the book, in a chapter not even a page long, we hear a CNN report about “the one-thousandth American death in Iraq.” Book review: ‘The Global War on Morris,’ a political satire by Congressman Steve Israel 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z And if they want to hear “Because the Night” for the one-thousandth time, I’m happy to sing it. Patti Smith’s most personal interview: “The things that make me feel strange – I’ve transformed them into work” 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z "WASP-17b is extremely hot … and the pressure where the quartz crystals form high in the atmosphere is only about one-thousandth of what we experience on Earth’s surface," he said. JWST Detects Quartz Crystals in an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z According to reports, he told Tesla employees that the measurements and specifics of the truck had to be exact, not varying by one-thousandth of a millimeter. Musk says Tesla ‘dug our own grave’ with upcoming Cybertruck 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Termolecular elementary reactions are uncommon because the probability of three particles colliding simultaneously is less than one one-thousandth of the probability of two particles colliding. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z One gives positions of 120,000 stars to an accuracy of one-thousandth of an arcsecond—about the diameter of a golf ball in New York as viewed from Europe. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z All it took was one one-thousandth of a second. Devon Allen's storybook ending wiped out in 0.001 of a second at world championships 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z The Twitter board’s poison pill would give stockholders as of April 25 the right to buy one one-thousandth of a share of preferred stock for each common share they own, at a price of $210. Shareholders await Musk’s next move in Twitter takeover bid 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z The rights agreement would give shareholders as of April 25 the right to buy one one-thousandth of a share of preferred stock for each common share they own, at a price of $210. Twitter says poison pill makes ‘coercive’ takeover difficult 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z It uses a low-powered microwave signal about one-thousandth the strength of a cellphone signal and evolved from NASA’s efforts to develop low-cost, small spacecraft radios. EXPLAINER: How is technology aiding Miami rescuers’ search? 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Suppose the planet is like Jupiter and has a mass about one-thousandth that of its star; in this case, the size of the star’s orbit is one-thousandth the size of the planet’s. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z But in a world with a trillion individual species of microorganisms, where scientists have counted only one one-thousandth of one percent, how likely is it researchers have discovered and characterized everything that might threaten people? Working with deadly pathogens dangerous, but necessary for scientists 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Apparently it isn’t terribly hungry; the black hole is eating “a paltry” one-thousandth of the mass of the sun per year. The most intimate portrait yet of a black hole 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z The second was that for some reason, when the star burst apart, it was surrounded by a cocoon of gas and dust with about one one-thousandth the mass of the sun. Strange Supernovae Upend Expectations 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z And 2,635 people or couples — less than one-thousandth of the U.S. population — together provided $1.4 billion, roughly one-fifth of total campaign contributions reported as of late summer. Election 2020 sees record $11 billion in campaign spending, mostly from a handful of the super-rich 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Still, they argued the payload for these craft would be 10 times the mass of the spacecraft, whereas the payload on chemical interstellar rockets would typically be one-thousandth the weight of the rocket. Could Carbon-Foam Probes Sail to Nearby Stars? 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z “This was a force continuously pushing away from the sun with a magnitude of about one one-thousandth of the solar gravitational acceleration.” A Hydrogen Iceberg from a Failed Star Might Have Passed through Our Solar System 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z But it is still tiny: 10,000 times smaller than a millimeter, barely one-thousandth the width of a human hair, smaller even than the wavelength of light from a germicidal lamp. Monster or Machine? A Profile of the Coronavirus at 6 Months 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z It’s little more than a packet of genetic material surrounded by a spiky protein shell one-thousandth the width of an eyelash, and it leads such a zombielike existence that it’s barely considered a living organism. The coronavirus isn’t alive. That’s why it’s so hard to kill. 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z A micrometer is a one-thousandth of a millimeter or about 0.000039 of an inch. Oldest stuff on Earth found inside meteorite that hit Australia 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Ultrafine particles are less than 100 nanometers in diameter — one one-thousandth the width of a human hair — and their impact on health is only beginning to be studied. Little-understood, unregulated particles pollute neighborhoods under Sea-Tac flight paths, UW study finds 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z The lesson from Simbol Materials, he said, is that “you can’t go from one one-thousandth commercial scale to full commercial scale.” Lithium will fuel the clean energy boom. This company may have a breakthrough 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z And on Google, his spending plunged to $300 during one week in August — less than one-thousandth of what he spent in his first week as a candidate, when campaigns often spend the most. Joe Biden’s Digital Ads Are Disappearing. Not a Good Sign, Strategists Say. 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Your chances of being chosen for that poll might be less than one-thousandth of a percentage point. Why You Can’t Volunteer for Election Polls, and Other Polling Facts 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z So marks as small as one-thousandth of a millimetre can be made 0.15mm below a diamond's surface in a trillionth of a second. Game of Stones: Tracking conflict diamonds with lasers 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The bursts are so brief, only about one-thousandth of a second, that it’s usually impossible to pinpoint their origins—or their cause, be it a supernova, a neutron star, or something even more exotic. Baffling radio burst traced to a galaxy 3.6 billion light-years away 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z The names are going to be pretty teeny, though — about one-thousandth the width of a human hair. Now’s the time to get your name on NASA’s next mission to Mars 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z Even after its leap, its total market value is less than one-thousandth of the more famous Zoom. Two Zooms are soaring after IPO: Did you buy the wrong one? 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z The investigators then bound the medications to microscopic carriers: silver particles only 50 to 100 nanometers in diameter, or less than one-thousandth the width of a strand of hair. A Silver Bullet Against the Brain-Eating Amoeba? 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z And it is the less than one-thousandth of 1 percent — the 2,210 people, who so far have collectively given $1.1 billion, or nearly one-quarter of the total — who matter even more. Campaign spending isn’t the problem — where the money comes from is 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z It is often abbreviated to micron, and is equal to 1×10-6 of a metre, one-millionth of a metre or one-thousandth of a millimetre. Thirty micrometres a minute: scientists discover the speed of death 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z The magnitude of whatever was affecting it was tiny — just one-thousandth as strong as the pull of the Sun’s gravity. Mysterious interstellar visitor is a comet — not an asteroid 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z That is about one-thousandth of 1 percent of all players. Long time: Beltre, Colon only in MLB with 20-plus seasons 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Advanced signal processing techniques originally developed for the petroleum industry allowed them to spot layers just 20 microns thick — less than one-thousandth of an inch. In Picasso’s Blue Period, Scanners Find Secrets He Painted Over 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Mazdzer was fourth after the first two heats on Saturday, a mere one-thousandth of a second away from a medal spot. Loch blows chance at Olympic luge record as USA's Mazdzer takes historic silver 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z He points out that the “tremendous medical costs” associated with transgender service members amount to “about one-thousandth of 1 percent of the military budget.” Right and Left React to Trump’s Transgender Ban 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Google said that for many of its top advertisers, the objectionable videos accounted for fewer than one one-thousandth of a percent of their total ad impressions. Google Training Ad Placement Computers to Be Offended 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z His putting average this year was actually one one-thousandth of a point better than 2015. Maybe Bernhard Langer is getting old, but winning sure isn't - Golf Digest 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z The machines are not visible to the eye: They are only a few nanometers long, one one-thousandth the width of a strand of human hair. 3 Makers of ‘World’s Smallest Machines’ Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z That, however, is far less than one one-thousandth of the world's carbon dioxide emissions, according to figures from the International Energy Agency. Exxon, FuelCell will work on technology to produce power while capturing carbon emissions 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The group thinks that its architecture could reduce energy use to less than one-thousandth that of standard chips. The chips are down for Moore’s law 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z That Swiss team aimed for a tunnel with air pressure one-tenth of sea level, compared with one-thousandth for the hyperloop. Hyperloop Race Picks Up Speed 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z But the movement is less than one-thousandth the width of an atomic nucleus. Gravitational wave detection could be a false alarm 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z But that’s less than one one-thousandth of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. ‘Clean coal’ technology fails to capture world’s attention 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z More important, in all of the experimental cracking events, the sonogram produced what the researchers called “a brilliant hyperechoic flash” that lasted approximately 115 milliseconds—or one one-thousandth of a second. Here's Why Your Knuckles Crack 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z The one that strikes me as ridiculous is, let’s hold the tag for the one one-thousandth of a second the runners foot might have left the bag. Questions in Baseball Over Unintended Consequence of Instant Replay 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Passenger pigeons went extinct in about one-thousandth of a percent of the time they were on Earth. Can Genetic Engineering Bring Back Extinct Animals? 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Advanced Ligo is looking for changes in laser-arm distance that are on the order of one one-thousandth of the width of a proton. Advanced Ligo: Labs 'open their ears' to the cosmos - BBC News 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z I get recognized like one-thousandth of the time. Life with Goku: talking to Dragon Ball Z voice actors Christopher Sabat and Sean Schemmel 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z To create white, the ASU researchers manufactured three thin semiconductor lasers — each as thick as one-thousandth of a human hair — and lined them up parallel to one another. Engineers create world's first white laser beam 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z The IRS released a new report that reveals the staggering amount of money that the top one-thousandth of the 1% in the US is hoarding. The super-rich are taking us for a ride: The obscene concentration of wealth at the top 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z And the fact that they went extinct in about one-thousandth of a percent of the time they were on Earth is truly incredible. Can Genetic Engineering Bring Back Extinct Animals? 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z The ink particles for superhigh-resolution printing are as small as one one-thousandth the width of a human hair. At Kodak, Clinging to a Future Beyond Film 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z A micron equals 1,000 nanometers and is one-thousandth of a millimeter. Ultra-small U-M logo shows possible new drug delivery tool 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z The pollutants are about one-thousandth the width of a human hair and are released during combustion by car, truck and airplane engines, kitchen stoves, fireplaces and other sources. Ultrafine particles linked to California heart disease deaths, study finds 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z The same goes for a major part on the bearing box assembly, where 60-pound slabs of bronze that cost $430 each are milled to one-thousandth of an inch. Work on historic locomotive near Middleton has ways to go 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z The lab solved the problem by using radioactive samples a quarter of the thickness of a human hair, and one-thousandth the thickness of a sheet of paper, too small to give off much radiation. Betting on the Need, Scientists Work on Lighter, Cleaner Nuclear Energy 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z The project would employ tiny magnetic nanoparticles, said to be one-thousandth the width of a red blood cell, to bind themselves to various molecules and identify them as trouble spots. Google wants to flood your body with tiny magnets to search for disease 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z That works out to less than one one-thousandth of the Bills’ estimated $252 million in revenue. What Are NFL Cheerleaders Worth? Inside Their Fight for Minimum Wage 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z The detergent in this case is a gas enclosed in a capsule one-thousandth of a millimeter in size. Silicon Valley's Most Hated Patent Troll Stops Suing and Starts Making 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Because, again, you’re not talking about people losing one one-thousandth of their salary, you’re talking about them losing their livelihoods, and finding it very hard to find a job after that. Calm down everybody: McCarthyism isn’t coming back just because a rich guy lost his job 2014-05-10T13:30:00Z That would make it the most expensive postage stamp ever sold and probably the most valuable object in the world by weight, which is next to nothing at one-thousandth of an ounce. The ‘Mona Lisa’ of Stamps to Be Auctioned at Sotheby’s 2014-05-02T03:58:36Z Iron content closely corresponds to what astronomers call metallicity, which is expressed on a logarithmic scale: Minus 2.0 is one-hundredth the iron abundance of the sun, –3.0 is one-thousandth, and so on. The Archaeology of the Stars 2014-02-10T22:53:32Z Today a flash drive costing one-thousandth as much can store 50 times the data and fit on a key ring. Welcome to the Surveillance Society 2013-08-01T19:20:28Z On August 25, those solar particles dropped to less than one-thousandth their prior levels. Voyager 1 Returns Surprising Data about an Unexplored Region of Deep Space 2013-06-27T19:15:08.627Z The pulse lasts for one-half of one-thousandth of a billionth of a second. Small, Laser-Beam Box Detects Clandestine Nuclear Materials 2013-06-06T16:38:47Z If the provision is triggered, each right will allow stockholders to buy one one-thousandth of a share of a new series of participating preferred stock at an exercise price of $350 per right. UPDATE 4-Netflix seeks to fend off Icahn with poison pill 2012-11-05T19:32:10Z Phelps made the split-second decision to get in one more stroke and slammed into the wall - one-thousandth of a second ahead of the Serbian swimmer. Phelps finishes second again for 18th career medal 2012-07-31T19:28:09Z In the hot springs of Bath it amounts to about one-thousandth part of the gas evolved. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z A cash, I may remind the reader, is the one-thousandth part of two shillings. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z In microscopic measurements, the conventional sign for the micromillimetre or the one-thousandth part of a millimetre = one two-thousandth part of a line. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The time required for a rifle-bullet to pass clean through a man's head may be roughly estimated at one-thousandth of a second. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z If it be a charged body insulated in space its capacity should be extremely small, less than one-thousandth of a farad. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z He finds that “a very slight increase of one-thousandth part of the radius of the orbit would account for the augmentation in time, 30m in a century.” Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z The great difference that the one-thousandth of an inch makes in the fit of two pieces may be shown as in Fig. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Freedom of the will cannot be disproved, for it cannot be shown that there is not one-thousandth of a grain's difference between the force exerted by the body and the force derived from without. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Li, lē, n. a Chinese weight, equal to the one-thousandth of a liang or ounce, and nominally to the Japanese rin: a Chinese mile, equal to rather more than one-third of an English mile. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z And at its deepest the groove is less than one-thousandth of an inch deep. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z The dose is roughly one-thousandth of a chest X-ray and equivalent to the cosmic radiation received in a few minutes of flying at typical cruising altitude. U.S. Glossed Over Cancer Concerns Associated with Airport X-ray Scanners 2011-11-01T20:45:00.500Z By the term inappreciable I mean that it is not substantially greater than one-tenth of one per cent.—i.e. not more than one-thousandth. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection 2011-10-18T02:00:18.363Z The largest objects were one-thousandth of an inch, the smallest, the four-thousandth of an inch. The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 2011-09-11T02:00:11.613Z In the exercise of his labour he could then be individual and original, he is now but one-thousandth part of an inch in a single tooth of a huge revolving cogwheel. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z Drilling small holes at tolerances within one-thousandth of an inch and punching in complex programming codes held his attention more than classroom lectures ever did. Learn to Earn: Tough Budget Calculus as Technical Schools Face Deep Cuts 2011-07-09T22:11:08Z Epigrams and also the Lord's Prayer written in the one-thousandth part of a square inch have been freely distributed. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z All that is wanted is to enact in your statute that the fine should “not exceed one-fiftieth or one one-thousandth of a man’s income.” The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z If the diameters and distances were all made on a one-tenth scale, the surfaces would be one-hundredth of reality, the volumes one-thousandth. Are the Planets Inhabited? 2011-04-24T02:00:07.733Z Under the stockholder rights plan, Iron Mountain will issue one-thousandth of a new Series A junior participating preferred stock of the company at 12 cents per share, if the 15 percent threshold is breached. UPDATE 1-Iron Mountain adopts poison pill to fend off Elliott challenge 2011-03-23T16:15:43Z Prof. Mendeleef has a balance that will turn with one-thousandth of a grain, when each pan is loaded with 15,000 grains. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z It is easy to cut out of sheet metal a circle 10 inches in diameter, and a square of 7.85 on the side, or even one-thousandth of an inch closer to the standard 7.854. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z A mere 176 by 176 pixels, that first image was built from roughly one one-thousandth the information in pictures captured with today’s digital cameras. Circling the Square 2010-06-28T15:06:00Z And even over that peak period, its daily CO2 output was only about one-thousandth of that produced by the sum total of humanity's fossil fuel burning, deforestation, agriculture and everything else. Climate changing? 2010-04-20T23:04:00Z It is in fact a universal principle of space science — a “prime directive,” as it were — that anything a human being does up there could be done by unmanned machinery for one-thousandth the cost. 2010-02-10T22:07:00Z They fit because a bacterium is one-thousandth the size of a typical human cell. 2010-01-11T21:00:00Z This is an error of one-thousandth of one per cent, an accuracy far greater than any mechanic can attain with the tools now in use. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z If a solution containing not more than one-thousandth part of a grain of the coloring matter of the corpuscle, be examined, this instrument will detect it. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers The value of a single cash may be taken as one-thousandth of a Mexican dollar. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology That I had believed myself rich a few moments back, and now found myself a beggar, could not give one-thousandth part of that suffering which I feel here. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) In a cold day in winter it is not more than one-thousandth part, while in a warm day in summer it may equal one-fortieth of the quantity of air in a given space. Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. If it be conceded that lines have breadth, then all we have to do is to assign some definite breadth to each line—say the one-thousandth of an inch—and allow for it. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z The new invention is an arrangement by which a runner's reaction time may be measured to within the one-thousandth part of a second. Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895 How in the world was it possible to take in even one-thousandth of this huge, roaring, many-sided continent? From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel And he supposed that they and their descendants did not, in 1786, exceed four thousand, "which is little more than one-thousandth part of the whole inhabitants." History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia Only potassium and rubidium have a greater activity than this, and theirs is only about one-thousandth that of uranium. A Brief Account of Radio-activity If ten houses are burned, each of the ten thousand house owners will pay one-thousandth part of the total loss, making a burden easily provided for. Rural Health and Welfare There might not be one chance in a thousand, but the one-thousandth chance was just the one that might have its turn. Cecilia A Story of Modern Rome He can contract matter together until it occupies less than one one-thousandth of its original volume. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 For local treatment of wounds the usual antiseptics are indicated, such as 3 per cent compound cresol or carbolic acid, or one one-thousandth bichlorid-of-mercury solution. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle I know very well that you will not value it one-thousandth part as much as I do your likeness here on my watch-chain; but perhaps it will remind you of me sometimes. Macaria The screws are provided with graduated heads which permit the respective halves of the thrust bearing to be set within one one-thousandth of an inch. Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers But, weighed with a spring balance, the change would be at once evident, and the effort with which a weight could be raised would be reduced to one-thousandth part. The Story of the Heavens How often have I seen an exquisite drawing of Abbey's or Du Maurier's almost ruined by the slipping of the burin the one-thousandth part of an inch! Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914 The presence of salt to the extent of one-thousandth of the weight of the soil, has a prejudicial effect. Manures and the principles of manuring I could not tell you one-thousandth part of the tricks and games in which the Duchess of Milan and my wife indulge. Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 Can they be moved the one-thousandth part of an inch by your distress or my distress or the distress of any human being? The Goose Man Even Jupiter, the largest member of that family, does not contain one-thousandth part of the material which forms the vast bulk of the sun. The Story of the Heavens Of the three and a half billion people on Earth, less than an estimated one-thousandth of one percent were telepathic. The Penal Cluster Any man capable of doing one-thousandth part of what this wily "professor" claims to be able to do, would make so much money that it would embarrass him all the rest of his life. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Suppose, for instance, that the earth experienced a fall of temperature in its interior which amounted to only one-thousandth of a degree in a year. Time and Tide A Romance of the Moon The extreme delicacy of one of these instruments will be understood, when it is said that it measures and records a time-interval so short as one-thousandth part of a second! Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches Not one-thousandth part as bad as the detestable mosquitoes on the shores of the Barbuda lagoon, they agreed. The Three Lieutenants And that golden atom, I estimate, is located probably within one one-hundredth of an inch, possibly even one one-thousandth of an inch away from the circular indentation I made in the bottom of the scratch. The Girl in the Golden Atom At last he arranged a powerful electro-magnetic device so that one impulse would both open and close the switch, with an open period of one one-thousandth of a second. Skylark Three But he was of opinion that if even "one-hundredth or one-thousandth part" of organic beings escaped this fortuitous destruction, there would supervene among the survivors a struggle for life sufficiently destructive to satisfy his theory. At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers Each of these contains one-thousandth part of a grain of physostigmine sulphate, a quantity which is perfectly efficient. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The time that elapses between an irritation and the beginning of a responsive movement can be measured within one one-thousandth of a second. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science My instrument was not merely of insufficient power, it was not one-thousandth the power I needed. The Girl in the Golden Atom You see, son, we must lose one one-thousandth of one per cent of our total energy, and provision must be made for its dissipation in order to avoid destruction of the laboratory. Skylark Three Which has been confirmed by one-thousandth part of this number of experimenters? Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity If one one-thousandth part of the charges are proven to be true.... A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium It is only a little over one-thousandth of an inch in diameter. Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 Probably not more than one one-thousandth of the buffalo meat that might have been saved and utilized was saved. The Extermination of the American Bison My answer was then what it is now: Were I to undertake to utter one-thousandth part that the importance of the theme demands, the contest would be between me and Time. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) When we reduce common air in a bulb to one one-thousandth of its normal density at the sea we get the possibility of continuous incandescent electric light by the vibration of platinum wire. Among the Forces Some trained musicians are able to discriminate between two sounds as differing one from the other when the difference in frequency is less than one-thousandth of either number. Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. If the compound examined be the sulphide of antimony, the one-thousandth part can be readily detected, and hence this method is admirably adapted to the examination of medicinal antimonial compounds. A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations The loss involved in neglecting them would usually be less than one-thousandth part of the loss due to exhausted papers. Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government Instruments made for scientific photography could be made to expose the plate not more than one-thousandth of a second. Whosoever Shall Offend As soon as a barrel is taken from the boring machine it is put through a test, to determine whether it is correct in size to the one-half of one-thousandth of an inch in diameter. The Boy With the U.S. Census Everything moves, revolves, rushes ceaselessly, yet a balance registering the one-thousandth part of a grain is not adjusted as nicely as these huge behemoths of limitless space. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers The wall, then, is superfluous; a fence of electrified wire would have served as good a purpose at about one-thousandth of one per cent. of the cost. The Subterranean Brotherhood Our system of inspection with special micrometer gauges insures all parts being perfect—within one-thousandth of an inch of absolute accuracy. Business Correspondence Never, since my intimacy with Mr. Gifford, did I see him so heartily pleased, or give one-fiftieth part of the praise, with one-thousandth part of the warmth. A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 A vast obscenity of sound beat upon us, making us reel backward, and for just the one-thousandth part of a second I saw a round white spot, like a new baseball, against a cloud background. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front MILLI-AMMETER.—An ammeter that measures a current by the one-thousandth of an ampere. The Radio Amateur's Hand Book When the sun is most spotted its total light may be reduced by one-thousandth part, although it is by no means certain that its outgiving of thermal radiations is then reduced. Curiosities of the Sky Let there be 7000 A’s and 7000 B’s representing two varieties of a given animal, and let all the B’s, in virtue of a slight difference of structure, have the better chance by one-thousandth part. Life and Habit The diameter of the individuals was found to be one one-thousandth of a millimeter. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) We call those junctions in a thermopile 'couples,' and by getting the recording instruments sensitive enough, we can measure one one-thousandth of a degree. The Dream Doctor The units of inductance commonly used in radio work are the millihenry, which is the thousandth part of a henry; and the centimeter of inductance, which is one one-thousandth part of a microhenry. The Radio Amateur's Hand Book A loss of one-thousandth of its luminosity would correspond to a decrease of .0025 of a stellar magnitude, considering the sun as a star viewed from distant space. Curiosities of the Sky And if defense against barbarous nations is meant, one-thousandth part of the troops now under arms would be amply sufficient for that purpose. The Kingdom of God Is Within You Probably not one-thousandth part of the creditors on security of Overend, Gurney and Co., had ever expected to have to rely on that security, or had ever given much real attention to it. Lombard Street : a description of the money market Were any one in Italy to dare give utterance to the one-thousandth part of those calumnies, I would impose upon him an awful silence! 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