thousandths
- plural of thousandth.
Example Sentences
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That yielded speed improvements measured in milliseconds—or thousandths of a second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
"It can see things on the scale of a few thousandths of a millimetre," explained Adrian Mancuso, director of physical sciences at Diamond.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025
Back then, Britain’s Allan Wells narrowly beat Silvio Leonard in an era when timing didn’t go down into the thousandths of a second.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2024
Because of the simplicity of the 128-bit microchip, the robot runs on a mere 75 nanowatts—a couple thousandths as much power as is consumed by a modern pacemaker.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 7, 2024
His design called for “a hundred or so pieces,” he explained, “which had to fit together to within a precision of a few thousandths of an inch.”
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
