Spread over the planet's surface, it would be only a thousandth of an inch deep.
From the time.com
The invader is tiny, about one sixteen-thousandth the size of the head of a pin.
From the time.com
They fit because a bacterium is one-thousandth the size of a typical human cell.
From the forbes.com
One micronewton is roughly the force needed to lift one ten-thousandth of a gram.
From the newscientist.com
Carbon nanotubes are cylinders one-ten-thousandth of the diameter of a human hair.
From the newscientist.com
A micron is one thousandth of a millimeter or one-25th of a thousandth of an inch.
From the sciencedaily.com
The bar corresponds to a micrometer or a thousandth millimeter, respectively.
From the sciencedaily.com
So these gizmos can sense one thousandth of the signal needed to make a TV picture?
From the economist.com
He felt stirrings of unease and wondered for the thousandth time what had happened.
From the denverpost.com
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The ordinal number of one thousand in counting order
Position 1,000 in a countable series of things
This list compares various sizes of positive numbers, including counts of things, dimensionless quantity and probabilities. ...
(Thousandths) 1/1000th of a second. Used in timing lap times. The third digit to the right of the decimal point. Threshold Braking: Braking hard, but below the point where the tires lock up and begin to skid.
(thousandths) Change to decimal form. For example, "two one-thousandths" would become PERIOD ZERO ZERO TWO.