Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Thousandth.
- adjective Consisting of a thousandth.
- adjective Relating to thousandths.
- noun A thousandth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts: as, millesimal fractions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
thousandth ; consisting of thousandth parts
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Our annual contribution to the school is equivalent to half of a millesimal part of what our country spends each year in the sphere of education and culture.
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Who could dream some ten years ago that science would be able to penetrate the problems of heredity in that way, and find the mechanism that lies behind the crossing results of plants and animals; that it would be possible to localize in these chromosomes, which are so small that they must be measured by the millesimal millimetre, hundreds of hereditary factors, which we must imagine as corresponding to infinitesimal corpuscular elements.
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The purity of a millesimal fineness, such as 0.995 being very pure.
qms commented on the word millesimal
A homeopathic professional
Doles dosages infinitesimal.
He need never wrestle
With mortar and pestle;
His pipette drops portions millesimal.
February 28, 2018