I have connected the ammeter so that it will indicate thousandths of an ampere, and you see that the needle moves only slightly.
That is, this particular cell can push sixteen thousandths of an ampere through the resistance of this volt meter, and .
When these lines coincide, we have the exact measurement of 15/32 inch without reference to how many thousandths may be contained in the fraction.
Micrometer with Attachment for Reading Ten-thousandths of an Inch] Fig.
Micrometer Attachment for Reading Ten-thousandths of an Inch [Illustration: Fig.
Our measurements were made by methods defined by Hubbs and Lagler (1958); values are expressed as thousandths of the larger dimension.
The human spermatozoon is only fifty-four thousandths of a millimetre in length, and from forty-one to fifty-three thousandths of a millimetre are taken up by its flagellum.
The essential part is from four to six thousandths of a millimetre in length (Dr.
Silver wire is sometimes used, but no way has yet been found of drawing any metallic wire so thin as the quartz fibre, which is sometimes as thin as two thousandths of a millimetre, or about a twelve-thousandth of an inch.
Then the compound wire is drawn down until it is so thin that the platinum core is only one and a half thousandths of an inch in diameter.
Subtract one hundred and sixty-one ten thousandths (.
By our method we measure the diameter of the escape wheel in thousandths of an inch, and from this size calculate exactly what the diameter of the new cylinder should be in thousandths of an inch.
If the latter does not run true, the hand of the indicator vibrates and the graduations on the dial show how much the work is out in thousandths of an inch.
The particular indicator illustrated is of the dial type, any error in the location of the button being shown by a hand over a dial having graduations representing thousandths of an inch.
There are also micrometer dials graduated to thousandths of an inch and used for adjusting the tools without the use of measuring instruments.
Special, that forward portion had to be bored out slightly, several thousandths to accommodate the longer cartridge, which, by the way, is a very common thing on these surplus weapons.
You can see when you close the cylinder, and each chamber lines up, there is a few thousandths space between.
Above the roller a few thousandths of an inch was a knife blade extending from edge to edge.
These intervals may vary from a few thousandths to one or two-tenths of a second, while the duration of each of the consecutive discharges is probably not more than two or three hundred-thousandths of a second in most cases.
Each plant measures about five thousandths of an inch in length, so we shall require a high magnification to examine it.
The inch micrometer shown is set to five-tenths or five hundred one-thousandths or one-half inch.
It is considered very difficult to drill a hole to an exact diameter, but for the most work a variation of a few thousandths of an inch is of no great moment.
One complete revolution of the spindle, therefore, moves it longitudinally one-fortieth, or twenty-five thousandths of an inch.
The top one is graduated to read in thousandths of an inch, while the lower one is graduated to indicate hundredths of a millimeter.
A few thousandths of an inch may be ground out without danger, however.
Thus even here the error does not amount to two-thousandths of a second.
The reader will understand from what has been said that the error in any of these times may be as much as two-thousandths of a second, but is not likely to be more than that, when all precautions were taken.
Captain Abney had got chemical effects from undulations twelve ten-thousandths of a millimetre in length.
Professor Langley now got heating effects from rays of above twice that wave-length, his delicate thread of platinum groping its way down nearly to thirty ten-thousandths of a millimetre, or three "microns.
The micrometer is a tool, or instrument, which will measure accurately from 0 to 1 inch in thousandths of an inch.
Illustration: The ingenious Gilbreth clock, graduated to one-thousandths of a minute.
Each of these divisions represents the thousandth part of a minute, while the clock can be read easily to half-thousandths of a minute.
The spindle has been set and the dummy rings C are consequently within a few thousandths of an inch of the walls d of the spindle dummy grooves D.
Multiply seventy thousand fourteen hundred-thousandths by one hundred nine millionths, and divide the product by five hundred forty-five.
There were 461 tenthousandths of a pound of butter-fat per pound of milk.
Forest Service laboratory are at rates of fibre strain | | of 15 and 10 ten-thousandths in.
These rods you saw are only from five to fifteen thousandths of a millimeter long and not more than one- thousandth of a millimeter broad.
Three to five one-thousandths of a gram, or six one-hundredths of a grain, are very dangerous.
Milli-ammeters or milli-voltmeters are instruments in which the scale is graduated to read directly in thousandths of an ampere or thousandths of a volt respectively.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thousandths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
