One of the smaller measures of electrical currents; the millionth part of one amp\'8are.
A measure of electro-motive force; the millionth part of one volt.
A measure of electrical quantity; the millionth part of one coulomb.
It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian.
That machine yonder detects the waves from a millionth of a millionth of a milligramme of radium.
Professor Cranz, a German experimenter, also has carried out some novel experiments on the same lines, and has designed a system whereby he is able to take a photograph in the ten-millionth part of a second.
It just went to prove for the umpty-umph millionth time that anything can happen in war.
Two year-long hours later Dawson stumbled over a hidden root for the umpty-umteenth millionth time, and let his weary body sink down onto the soft ground.
The farad is a very large unit, and accordingly the microfarad or one millionth of a farad is often used, though this must be reduced to farads before substituting in formulæ.
If the frequency be a million per second the current at a depth of 1 millimetre is less than one six-millionth part of its surface value.
They closed it using projectiles one one-hundred millionth of an inch in diameter.
We can detect by the smell one two-millionth of a milligram of oil of roses or musk, but we can detect one two-billionth of a milligram of mercaptan, which is the vilest smelling compound that man has so far invented.
A bar of the best form of invar will expand less than one-millionth part of its length for a rise of one degree Centigrade at ordinary atmospheric temperature.
That's a twelfth of a foot, or a little more than a millionthpart of a mile.
Therefore it is one-millionth part of a calamity--Oh, dear!
Any amount of time would include a second, and even a millionth part of a second.
What I think we did was to remove that rock a distance, perhaps only a millionth of a second, forward or back into time.
Human life is not a ten-thousand-millionth of the life on the planet, nor the race of men more than an infinitesimal fraction of the creatures which it nourishes.
On my honour and conscience, what else but the millionth part of a drop of camomile oil?
In this way a vacuum may be produced having a vapour pressure of about the hundred-millionth of an atmosphere at 0 deg.
You cannot see into its substance a millionth of a micron--the illusion of transparency being purely a surface phenomenon, and peculiar to this one form of substance.
Even fifth-order rays would require a millionthof a second or so to set the courses.
It'll do it all in about a millionth of a second, too--I want to get us all back alive if possible!
Whitworth Millionth Measuring Machine, in which the measurement is taken by the readings of an index wheel, and the contact is determined from the sense of touch and the force of gravity.
Imagine the magnet to become smaller and smaller until it was the size of an atom, the one-fifty-millionth of an inch.
Matter is made up of atoms having dimensions approximately determined to be in the neighbourhood of the one fifty-millionth of an inch in diameter.
Assume that the magnet becomes smaller and smaller until it is of the dimensions of an atom, say for an approximation, the fifty-millionth of an inch.
The ninety-five millionth mile waits on us silently, at the doorways of our souls night and day, and we wait on IT.
Spectral analysis of light discloses the presence of a millionth of a milligramme of sodium in a flame.
The dimensions of atoms must be less than a millionth of a millimetre in diameter.
Arago has demonstrated that it does not exceed the millionth part of a second.
All matter is believed to be constituted of minute particles called “atoms,” whose diameter has been estimated at about one millionth of a millimeter.
Wheatstone proved a good many years ago that the duration of the electric spark was less than one millionth of a second.
Some late experiments seem to show that the actual amplitude of motion of the air, when moved by such a high sound as that from a small whistle, is less than the millionth of an inch.
Wall, sure enough I wuz, but the dissapintment wuz on the other side--I hadn't expected half nor a quarter nor a millionthpart enough.
Edison had tested his tasimeter, and was satisfied that it would measure down to the millionth part of a degree Fahrenheit.
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