Rose George

Shipping is the greenest method of transport. In terms of carbon emissions per ton per mile, it emits about a thousandth of aviation and about a tenth of trucking. But it's not benign, because there's so much of it. So shipping emissions are about three to four percent, almost the same as aviation's.

British Journalist

Werner Heisenberg

In America, it was decided to attempt the production of atomic bombs with an effort that would constitute a large part of the collective American war effort. In Germany, an effort one thousandth the scale of the American was applied to the problem of producing atomic energy that would drive engines.

German Physicist

Augustus Hare

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

English Writer

Barry Barish

The size of the effect that we measured from the first event, the merging of two black holes, the actual size of the signal was about one thousandth the size of a proton, what it did to our apparatus.

American Physicist

Apolo Ohno

When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.

American Athlete

Victoria Pendleton

Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.

British Athlete

Bao Dai

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

Vietnamese Statesman

Albert Einstein

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Often used to stress the frequency of an action, usually out of frustration or exasperation.

Common Expression

When 'thousandth' is used figuratively, it does not denote the exact number but implies a lot.

Not Literal

Can underline that something has happened too many times, often more than what's reasonable.

Emphasize Repetition

In measurements, it refers to a very high level of precision and is used in scientific and technical contexts.

Precision

Denotes something extremely small when divided into one thousand pieces.

Tiny Fraction

Used in mathematical or financial contexts to indicate a precise part of a whole.

Math Context

Refers to the third decimal place value, especially in math or money.

Decimal Place

Pronounced 'one thousandth' when reading the decimal 0.001 aloud.

Read as Number

 the logo, which was like a Japanese character, but anyway, we had all these requests for Japanese food, which is really not what we did. And after about the ten thousandth request for a maki roll, we decided to give the people what they wanted. So this picture is an example of printed food, and this was

Homaro Cantu + Ben...

 as the W map satellite have shown that in fact there are just tiny differences in that background what you see here the blue areas are about a thousandth of a degree cooler than the red areas these are tiny differences but it was enough for the universe to move on to the next

The history of our world...

 being a thousandth of a millimetre that's smaller than the diameter of a human hair now while plankton may appear to be aimless drifters directionless in their movements in life they play a key role and perhaps the most vital organism on earth you see each and every plankton

Why Are Plankton the...

 surprising is that the universe at early times was incredibly smooth if you ignore the galaxies in the middle then each of those points is different from the average which is green by one part one part in a hundred thousand that's less than one thousandth of a percent or

The making of cosmic...

 What you see here, the blue areas are about a thousandth of a degree cooler than the red areas. These are tiny differences, but it was enough for the universe to move on to the next stage of building complexity. And this is how it works.

 tolerant of organic texture and human gesture. So the way the Apollonian personality takes a picture or hangs a picture is, they'll get out a transit and a laser level and a micrometer. "OK, honey. A thousandth of an inch to the left.

Dan Phillips: Creative...

 personality takes a picture or hangs a picture is they'll get out a transit and a laser level and a micrometer okay honey a thousandth of an inch to the left that's where we want the picture right perfect predicated on plumb level

Creative houses from...

 A zeptowatt, if you put it in similar terms, is if you take just one grain of salt and then you imagine a tiny, tiny, little ball that is one thousandth of the mass of that one grain of salt and then you drop it one nanometer,

This deep-sea mystery is...

 the pieces together these robots perform their tasks to within one one thousandth of an inch the entire process takes less than a minute it's really starting to look like a car

Robots Take Over PIPE...

 times allowing gaia to calculate the speed and direction of each one pinpointing their locations with accuracies up to one thousandth of one percent

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