thousandths
SayTHOW-zuhnths/ˈθaʊzən(d)θs/
- 1Plural of thousandth.
The engineers specified a tolerance measured in thousandths of a millimeter.
Race officials decided the finish by counting the thousandths on the timing system.
Note
Only the fraction can be counted. The ordinal noun (the thousandth in a line) stays singular, and the adjective (the thousandth visitor) has no plural at all. So the plural always means equal parts out of a thousand, as in three thousandths of an inch or a margin of a few thousandths of a second. That makes it a unit of measure that is easy to count.
thousandths is a form of thousandth
thousandth, noun: One part out of a thousand equal parts of a whole. Full entry
- Forms
- thousandththousandths plural
- Spelling
- thousandth → thousandths: add -s
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