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one-hundred-thousandth

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  • noun one part in a hundred thousand equal parts

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Examples

  • So why would they favor raising taxes on those who make as little as $250,000 a year, an amount that is less than one one-hundred-thousandth of Buffett's total wealth.

    The 'Tax The Rich' Con, Part I Charles W. Kadlec 2010

  • But by its hostility to virtually every part of the War on Terrorism, and its continuing assertion that in this war almost every step America has taken is an unnecessary and wasteful overreaction, the Left implicitly makes the argument that the dead of September 11 represent only one one-hundred-thousandth of the American population, and that although intelligent people understand the implications of this, the impatient jingoes who 'control' the country do not.

    Archive 2005-11-01 2005

  • About August he had obtained a pump that would produce a vacuum up to about the one-hundred-thousandth part of an atmosphere, and some time during the next month, or beginning of October, had obtained one that would produce a vacuum up to the one-millionth part of an atmosphere.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

  • About August he had obtained a pump that would produce a vacuum up to about the one-hundred-thousandth part of an atmosphere, and some time during the next month, or beginning of October, had obtained one that would produce a vacuum up to the one-millionth part of an atmosphere.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

  • Its purity was such generally, that there was not the one-hundred-thousandth part of chlorides left in the salt.

    History of the Confederate Powder Works George Washington Rains 1857

  • It's easy to be an expert awesomesauce human-follower when you're the one-hundred-thousandth user of a service.

    Blog World Expo Blog Itamar Kestenbaum 2010

  • So why would they favor raising taxes on those who make as little as $250,000 a year, an amount that is less than one one-hundred-thousandth of Buffett's total wealth.

    Forbes.com: News Charles W. Kadlec 2010

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