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TEN-THOUSANDTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ten-thousandth mean? 

TEN-THOUSANDTH (noun)
  The noun TEN-THOUSANDTH has 1 sense:

1. one part in ten thousand equal partsplay

  Familiarity information: TEN-THOUSANDTH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TEN-THOUSANDTH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

One part in ten thousand equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

one-ten-thousandth; ten-thousandth

Hypernyms ("ten-thousandth" is a kind of...):

common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)


 Context examples 


Oh! Not the ten-thousandth portion of the anguish that was mine during the lingering detail of its execution.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)



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