one thirty second

/wʌn θɜrdi ˈsɛkənd/
noun
  1. One of thirty-two equal parts of a whole; the fraction 1/32.
    • The recipe requires one-thirty-second of a teaspoon of a very strong spice.
    • The drill bit is only one-thirty-second of an inch wide.
    • He measured the gap and found it was exactly one-thirty-second of a meter.
adjective
  1. Being one of thirty-two equal parts of something.
    • We need a one-thirty-second scale model for the blueprint.
    • The tolerance is one-thirty-second of an inch.
    • The machinist made a one-thirty-second adjustment to the part.
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