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- noun one part in ten thousand equal parts
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Examples
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Third through, like, ten-thousandth because there are so many of them, are the Sentinels from the X-Men comics.
MIND MELD: What Are The Coolest Robots in Science Fiction? 2010
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And they said they were very glad that we had learned our lesson, and we said for the ten-thousandth time that we were sorry and that we would not do it again.
YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010
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More recently, in a bored sort of way we've briefly mentioned the ten-thousandth rediscovery of the discouraged worker effect, without tracking the many and even many more discussions of Paul Krugman's rediscovery of same.
The Employment Situation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If it did, the shock wave would liquefy his organs and kill him in about one ten-thousandth of a second.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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The cocaine found on all the bills in his study, if piled together, would amount to less than one ten-thousandth of a small dose.
When Testing for Cocaine Usage, Don't Follow the Money Carl Bialik 2011
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If it did, the shock wave would liquefy his organs and kill him in about one ten-thousandth of a second.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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At 8 a.m. one recent day, Ruth had already begun her algebra lesson, while her sister, first-grader Sarah, was rounding off numbers to the ten-thousandth.
Two Families, Two Takes on Virtual Schooling Heidi Mitchell 2011
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If it did, the shock wave would liquefy his organs and kill him in about one ten-thousandth of a second.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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The average total excess radiation dose for a person living within 10 miles of the partially melted down Three Mile Island reactor core in 1979 was approximately 80 microsieverts, or less than one ten-thousandth of a potentially fatal dose.
In Japan, Let's Stop Sweating The Small (Nuclear) Stuff 2011
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If it did, the shock wave would liquefy his organs and kill him in about one ten-thousandth of a second.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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