Provide clean surroundings for cows when calving, and in addition to this have a one in one-thousandth solution of Bichloride of Mercury on hand.
Also compel the animals to stand in tubs or troughs containing a one in one thousandth solution of Bichloride of Mercury for at least five minutes, twice daily.
Seamen do not exactly understand the value of such nice accuracy as the thousandth part of an inch, but prefer an instrument that reads only to a hundredth part.
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?
Still, I defy you to guess a thousandth part of the marvellous explanation of the mystery.
It is truly wonderful," he said, thinking, for the thousandth time, how this pearl among women came to Stepney Green.
His consort, however, awaited the explanation, for the thousandth time, in confidence.
If each of them is a ten-thousandth part as large as the dust particles which are borne in the atmosphere, how big must we suppose the hook-like extremities by which they interlock with each other[125] to be?
The error of any one of these readings probably does not exceed half a thousandth, but they are given to the nearest thousandth only.
If the corrections are required to the thousandth of a degree, it is necessary to tabulate the results of the calibration at much more frequent intervals than 2 deg.
The distances of the ends of the thread from the nearest degree divisions are estimated by the aid of micrometers to the thousandth of a degree.
The experiments of Quincke and others seem to show that the extreme range of the forces which produce capillary action lies between a thousandth and a twenty-thousandth part of a millimetre.
So true is it, therefore, that we feel scarce a thousandth part of our evils, and also that we estimate them and feel them or do not feel them, not as they are in themselves, but only as they exist in our thoughts and feelings.
And how many thousands are there in hell and everlasting damnation, who have not committed the thousandth part of our sins!
Yours is the fourteen-thousandth American family to which he has had the honor of acting as guide, and he makes you feel an illogical satisfaction in thus becoming a contribution to statistics.
Perhaps the chief task accomplished by the lathe has been its own improvement, so that to-day surfaces are readily cut by its tools accurately to within a thousandth part of an inch.
Thomson point to the probability that the atom of the chemist while a unit, is in part built of electrons each but one-thousandth part the size of a hydrogen atom.
If a copper refinery turns out from the same batch of crude metal two samples which vary by a thousandth in electrical conductivity, it is worth while knowing every detail which may explain how the better sample was produced.
The contouring is accurate to the thousandth part of an inch.
In manufacturing modern tools and machinery, the thousandth of an inch is the usual limit of allowable error.
Would the area of rock actually laid open to the eye be the thousandth or the ten-thousandth part of the earth's surface?
He gave himself up for the thousandth time to the consideration of the main problem.
As he lay back with closed eyes in the corner seat of a first-class compartment in the boat train from Calais he went over for the thousandth time the details of the problem as it affected himself.
With the second only one hundredth of the current goes through a and with the third only one thousandth of the current goes through a.
Thus I have an instrument which will measure anything from one thousandth of an ampere up to ten amperes.
Well," I said, "whether you feel anything or not one-thousandth of an ampere is passing through your tongue and you are offering fifteen hundred ohms of resistance.
He replied: "Do we see the hundred-thousandth part of what exists?
Now I remember the words of the monk at Mont Saint-Michel: "Can we see the hundred-thousandth part of what exists?
The units of inductance commonly used in radio work are the millihenry, which is the thousandth part of a henry; and the centimeter of inductance, which is one one-thousandth part of a microhenry.
An ammeter that measures a current by the one-thousandth of an ampere.
So Grindot, for the thousandth time had displayed his white-and-gold drawing-room paneled with crimson damask.
He has provided himself with a model in wood, or stone, or metal, and one thousandth of its size--therefore his model will be O.
If the compound examined be the sulphide of antimony, the one-thousandth part can be readily detected, and hence this method is admirably adapted to the examination of medicinal antimonial compounds.
Men accustomed to this class of work can readily detect an increase or decrease in diameter of one ten-thousandth part of an inch.
As soon as a barrel is taken from the boring machine it is put through a test, to determine whether it is correct in size to the one-half of one-thousandth of an inch in diameter.
It must fit into this one, it must not fit into that, which is a thousandth of an inch smaller.
Malone went over the whole case in his mind--for about the thousandth time, he told himself bitterly.
Then he realized--for perhaps the ten-thousandth time--that there was no such thing as wondering privately any more.
No city or nation has a thousandth part of the claim to devotion from its citizens which the church possesses.
They failed to blend or dissolve in the brain, notwithstanding that the white flash in some cases was only about one ten thousandth part of a second in duration.
Each of these divisions represents the thousandth part of a minute, while the clock can be read easily to half-thousandths of a minute.
This means that a process of Nature is condensed into one thirty-seven-thousandth part of the time it actually took, and its presentation on the screen is a remarkable triumph.
If they have gone quite identical distances they need not interfere, but usually the distances will differ by a hundred-thousandth of an inch or so, which is quite enough to bring about interference.
I myself, indeed, have designed and carried out a series of delicate experiments to see whether a whirling mass of iron could to the smallest extent grip the ether and carry it round, with so much as a thousandth part of its own velocity.
The mass, or inertia, of an electron is comparable to the thousandth part of that of the atom of hydrogen.
From one end to the other of the Palais Royal, he stared at the shops, stopping for the thousandth time before the things which generally drew his attention.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thousandth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
