What is "thousandth"

Usage examples of "thousandth".

For the thousandth time, he wished Bowser were still here, wily and unpredictable and fiercely unwilling to surrender.

The buttons of bullion obtained are afterwards remelted with borax and run into bars, the fineness of which varies from 600 to 830 thousandths.

It uses on the order of a thousandth of the capacity of the Matrioshka brain it is part of, although the runaway excursion currently in force has absorbed most of that.

These numbers implied that the supercurrent should tunnel back and forrh extremely rapidly: A mere thousandth of a volt across the sandwich would produce an alternating current that reverses itself 100 billion times a second.

A few unpierceable geniuses may smile at the thousandth rejection-slip, may yawn at that staggering cheque, but such things tend to affect the confidence and the writing.

Eulenspiegels, or, finally, for the edification of Argemone as to her own history, past, present, or future, are questions which we must leave unanswered, till physicians have become a little more of metaphysicians, and have given up their present plan of ignoring for nine hundred and ninety-nine pages that most awful and significant custom of dreaming, and then in the thousandth page talking the boldest materialist twaddle about it.

In the next chapter I ask you simply to come with me through a day in the life of the lab as I go through the routine tasks of experimentation, training chicks, dissecting their brains, measuring their biochemical constituents in quantities of thousandths of a milligram, and trying to extract meaning from the tables of figures that these measurements produce.

Light entering the eye brings about a change in the chromophore in the first thousandth of a second, and after that the rest of the changes are automatic, a causal chain that results in the experiencing of a vision of some sort.

Reckoning on the lowest estimate, and counting the organic changes which take place during the age as amounting to the thousandth part of the organic changes since the Laurentian age, we find ourselves in face once again of that inconceivable sum which was indicated by the physical record.

Jimjim whipped the gumbeasts angrily, wishing for the thousandth time to be in Reddock and done with this entire mess.

For the thousandth time, she sent up a prayer of thanks that Tahoe had such a fine judge.

With a scalpel, Reza dissects each in turn, places the tiny samples weighing no more than 20 milligrams - twenty thousandths of a gram - into one of the labelled tubes, and passes it back to me.

The cyborg-bacteria took only one thousandth of a second to decipher the action current patterns in the nerve fibers and to understand that what they had received was the system activation command.

It remains extraordinary, though, that with a brain of only 950,000 neurons - less than a thousandth of those in the human retina - bees can learn colours, textures and smells as well as motor skills, and when set appropriate tasks can show most of the features of conditioning, associative and non-associative learning and relatively long-lasting memory found by mammalian psychologists in organisms with many-fold larger brains.

Which made it a lot easier for them to adapt to other planets than it was for humans with their long circadian rhythms, Hebo thought for perhaps the thousandth time.