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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 parts
Familiarity information: TEN-THOUSANDTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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