# thousandth

Pronunciation: US say "THOW-zuhnth" /ˈθaʊzən(d)θ/; UK

## Adjective

1. Holding the final position in a series of one thousand; coming next after the nine hundred and ninety-ninth.
   - Simple: Coming right after the nine hundred and ninety-ninth, and the last in a group of one thousand.
   - _The author signed the thousandth copy of her novel at the launch event._
   - _Their thousandth match as a team ended in a narrow victory._

## Noun

2. One part out of a thousand equal parts of a whole.
   - Simple: One of a thousand equal parts of something.
   - _A milligram amounts to one thousandth of a gram._
   - _The gap between the surfaces was measured in thousandths of an inch._
3. The person or thing occupying position number one thousand in an ordered sequence.
   - Simple: The person or thing that comes in at number one thousand in a line or order.
   - _As the thousandth to cross the finish line, he earned a commemorative medal._
   - _The library gave a gift to the thousandth visitor of the year._

## Origin

Formed from "thousand" combined with the suffix "-th," which creates ordinal numbers.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/thousandth (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).