one quadrillionth
/wʌn kwɑˈdrɪljənθ/
adjective
- Being one of a quadrillion equal parts; extremely tiny in amount or degree.
- The detector is sensitive enough to find one-quadrillionth concentrations of pollutants.
- A one-quadrillionth error in the measurement would be negligible.
- They calculated the one-quadrillionth portion of the national budget.
noun
- One of a quadrillion equal parts of something; the fraction 1/1,000,000,000,000,000.
- Scientists measured the contamination at one-quadrillionth of the total volume.
- A one-quadrillionth of a second is called a femtosecond.
- The sample contained only a one-quadrillionth of a gram of the rare element.
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