What's the difference between millesimal and thousandth?
Millesimal
Definition:
(a.) Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions.
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Thousandth
Definition:
(a.) Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing.
(a.) Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth.
(a.) Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided.
Example Sentences:
(1) Administration of diet containing MeIQx at 0.4, 4 or 40 p.p.m., representing one-thousandth, one-hundredth and one-tenth of the dose proved to induce hepatocellular carcinomas (400 p.p.m.
(2) One microgram of DNA extracted from formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissue was applied as the 'first PCR' template and one ten-thousandth of the first PCR product was used as the 'second PCR' template.
(3) One hundredth ... no, sorry, one thousandth of the budget of a Star Trek.
(4) The inhibitory concentration of BV-araU for DNA synthesis in VZV-infected cells was one-thousandth of that of acyclovir.
(5) With a thickness of less than one thousandth of a millimetre, the “glass” (it’s really a film) transmits light visible to the human eye, while selectively capturing and converting ultraviolet and near-infrared light into electricity to power a mobile device and extend its battery life.
(6) At birth, a panda cub is pink, with sparse white hair, and minute, weighing around 150g or just one thousandth of its mother's weight – the birth itself can take just minutes.
(7) However, the affinity of TRH-A (pD2, 4.70) toward isolated duodenum was one thousandth that of TRH (pD2, 7.74).
(8) Soon the spare room of his south London flat was choked with fridges, cheese presses built from scrap metal, a terrarium pond fogger ("the kind you put in a lizard enclosure"), a bain-marie, and a set of diamond scales accurate to one-thousandth of a gram.
(9) Volumes of individual mitochondria ranged from as small as a few thousandths of a micron3 up to several micron3 for the incompletely reconstructed portions of the largest mitochondria.
(10) There’s tactics, strategy but I understand football as something unpredictable, because you have to decide in a thousandth of a second.
(11) They are tiny lozenge-shaped structures, a few thousandths of a millimetre long, and some human cells contain thousands of them.
(12) If top commanders already feel the war is lost, then the question must be asked for the thousandth time: why are we still fighting?
(13) They cover about one thousandth of the mammalian genome and include two major sets of cell surface products with different but related functions in the control of immune interactions, as well as genes for complement components and 21-hydroxylase.
(14) I hope that they will point out to the treasury that for much less than one thousandth part of total government expenditure, they create not just well-being but jobs; that for the pittance saved by cutting a few percentage points from our budget, the damage caused would be disproportionately savage.
(15) In contrast, the number of possible V region combinations in T-cell receptors is one hundredth to one thousandth that of immunoglobulins.
(16) CO was less than one thousandth as potent as NO as a relaxant.
(17) Agency: 72andSunny Director: Michael Downing BT Sport: 'Chelsea 6 v 0 Arsenal' (starts at 05:38) - UK Chelsea fans will not forget Arsene Wenger's thousandth game in charge of Arsenal in a hurry as they thrashed their North London rivals 6-0.
(18) Maximum permissible concentrations of 125I are one thousandth lower than 51Cr.
(19) Richard Herring is also back for what must be approaching his thousandth fringe, with a revival of his engrossing todger-based spectacular Talking Cock.
(20) It bound to cytosolic oestrogen receptors with only one thousandth the affinity of 4-hydroxytamoxifen and gave a correspondingly very weak inhibition of growth of the MCF-7 human breast cancer cell line.