Thousandths

And if we’re talking about a particular object, say a black hole binary system called GX339-4, and it’s only five thousandths as bright as the Crab, we say it’s 5 milliCrab bright.

Only two-thousandths of a second separated the top three, with McLaren’s Lando Norris lining up third ahead of his team-mate Oscar Piastri.

That was the same time as Olympic debutant Thompson, who led for most of the race, with Lyles producing a spectacular finish to beat him by just five thousandths of a second.

Dartford’s Adam Gemili missed out on bronze four years ago in Rio in the 200m by three thousandths of a second following a photo-finish.

Common shares last traded for five-ten-thousandths of a penny.

Eggert and Benecken also won a sprint World Cup doubles race later Saturday, with the top three sleds separated by four-thousandths of a second.

Norway's Sverre Lunde Pedersen claimed a bronze medal for his country, finishing two thousandths of a second behind Bloemen.

As the numbers 1, 2, 3, etc., appear below every fourth sub-division on the frame, indicating hundreds of thousandths, the reading can easily be taken.

By comparison, dosages of most drugs, both recreational and medicinal, are measured in milligrams (mg), or thousandths of a gram.

For example, SC followed by a number was rod-shaped cord, with the number representing the diameter in thousandths of an inch.

The luminous intensity of light-emitting diodes is measured in millicandelas (mcd), or thousandths of a candela.

The result will be the diameter expressed in thousandths of an inch.

These small angles may also be written in milliarcseconds (mas), or thousandths of an arcsecond.

The time taken to access a given byte of information stored on a hard disk is typically a few thousandths of a second, or milliseconds.