one ten thousandth
/wʌn tɛn ˈθaʊzənθ/
adjective
- 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
- 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.