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- noun one part in ten thousand equal parts
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Examples
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A layperson would have to hustle to raise one-ten-thousandth of that amount at his or her community bake sale.
Celebrity Apprentices — They’re Just Like Us! (Except Not Really) 2011
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On a social networking platform with 300 million users, the fact that less than one-ten-thousandth of one percent of its users took the poll, and then supposedly a tiny fraction of those answered "yes" -- does that deserve such a swarm of news coverage?
Threats to Obama Online: Media Should Focus on Secret Service's Resources, Not Facebook 2009
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As earthquakes go, it was maybe one-ten-thousandth the size of our biggest earthquake in Southern California.
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HUTTON: Well, we figured that this earthquake yesterday released about one-one-hundredth of the energy of the Northridge earthquake or maybe one-ten-thousandth of the energy of a possible 7.8 or 7.9 earthquake that would happen on the San Andreas Fault.
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The other principal technique now being used in many water-treatment plants is based on a process known as membrane technology, in which dirty water is filtered through pores one-ten-thousandth the size of pores in human skin.
Let It Flow 2008
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The real challenge, said Keith Schwab of Cornell University, is the next step: cooling the cantilever arm to one-ten-thousandth of a degree above absolute zero.
New Experiment Probes Weird Zone Between Quantum and Classical Mark Anderson 2007
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The attached galvanometer responds readily to changes of temperature, of much less than one-ten-thousandth degree F.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 Various
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The internet and other communications networks could use one-ten-thousandth of the energy that they do today if smarter data-coding techniques were used to move information around.
Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (New Scientist: Paul M 2010
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Each cell measures about one-ten-thousandth of a millimeter wide.
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Each cell measures about one-ten-thousandth of a millimeter wide.
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