one ten thousandth

/wʌn tɛn ˈθaʊzənθ/
adjective
  1. Being one of ten thousand equal parts; extremely small in proportion.
    • The prize was awarded to the one-ten-thousandth customer.
    • The one-ten-thousandth scale model was too tiny to see details.
    • They celebrated the one-ten-thousandth visitor to the museum.
noun
  1. One part in ten thousand; the fraction 1/10,000.
    • The error was just one ten-thousandth of a gram.
    • Only one ten-thousandth of the population carries that rare gene.
    • The machine can measure changes as small as one ten-thousandth of an inch.
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