That no matter be interposed, else it will prevent vibration, with the exception of a burnish of gold leaf, the thickness of which cannot amount to the two-hundred-thousandth part of an inch.
It has been calculated that an amount of condensation which would diminish the diameter of the sun by only the ten-thousandth part, would suffice to restore the heat emitted in 2000 years.
By means of Professor Wheatstone’s apparatus, the Duration of the Electric Spark has been ascertained not to exceed the twenty-five-thousandth part of a second.
As they were sworn to assess the damages agreeable to the evidence, and as the only witness called had sworn that there was not the thousandth part of a farthing damage done, how could a conscientious jury give any damage?
I had not done sixpenny worth of damage, that I had not done a farthing's worth, nor the thousandth part of a farthing's worth of damage, for it was impossible to do any damage if I had walked there for a month.
To these quantities from 30 to 50 parts of broken glass or cullet are added; with about a two-thousandth part of manganese, and a three-thousandth part of arsenic.
Besides, not more than one twenty-thousandth part of the earth's surface has been dug over to determine the extent to which any one of its varieties has flourished in the past.
Another method which gives a result accurate to the one-seventeen-thousandth part is as follows: [Illustration: Fig.
If the line FE be then drawn, it will be equal to the semi-circumference of the circle, within one-hundred-thousandth part nearly.
Even Jupiter, the largest member of that family, does not contain one-thousandth part of the material which forms the vast bulk of the sun.
On the delicate membrane a picture of Venus is thus drawn about one six-thousandth part of an inch in diameter.
And if defense against barbarous nations is meant, one-thousandth part of the troops now under arms would be amply sufficient for that purpose.
The extreme delicacy of one of these instruments will be understood, when it is said that it measures and records a time-interval so short as one-thousandth part of a second!
Where shall we go to find another man who has accomplished a one-thousandth part of the good that Joseph Smith accomplished?
No game in the world has been played a thousandth part of the time, aye all the games in the world have not consumed a thousandth part of the time, that cards have taken.
Still, I defy you to guess a thousandth part of the marvellous explanation of the mystery.
As I am neither by a thousandth part so great, nor a quarter so little, I will herewith send you a fragment that an accidental rencontre set me upon writing,, and which I found so flat, that I would not finish it.
Nobody that knows you will suspect you of wanting it; but, in the ocean of books that overflows every day, who will recollect a thousandth part of what is in most of them?
While this hardly justifies the statement sometimes made that the moon has no atmosphere, we shall be entirely safe in saying that if it has one at all its density is less than a thousandth part of that of the earth's atmosphere.
There is no such thing as the ten--thousandth part of an inch; but there is of a mile or diameter of the earth, which may be signified by that inch.
Johnson is not responsible for a ten-thousandth part of what during the last half-century has been observed in his name.
Please, sir, I want the hundred-thousandth part of a grain of magnesia.
I do not see how you can take the ten-thousandth part of a second to decide it, when there are two worlds fastened at opposite ends of a swivel, and the swivel turns on one point, and that point is now, now.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thousandth part" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
