тысячные доли

English translation: thousandths

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Russian term or phrase:тысячные доли
English translation:thousandths
Entered by: Dmitry Kornyukhov

19:39 Nov 20, 2011
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Science - Environment & Ecology
Russian term or phrase: тысячные доли
В этом захоронении пестицидов был обнаружен гептахлор в концентрациях, составляющих тысячные доли предельно допустимой концентрации.
aksanak
thousandths
Explanation:
Thousandths, as the word implies, is the place value that represents one thousandth of a whole. It is also one tenth of a hundredth and one hundredth of a tenth.
The thousandths place is commonly encountered in science, in the metric system of measure
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Dmitry Kornyukhov
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Local time: 19:41
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3 +8thousandths
Dmitry Kornyukhov
4 -1fraction of a thousand
splotnik
3few in thousand parts
murthy isn


  

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fraction of a thousand


Explanation:
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splotnik
Local time: 19:41
Native speaker of: Russian

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disagree  NikFil: Это значит "часть тысячи"
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27 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +8
thousandths


Explanation:
Thousandths, as the word implies, is the place value that represents one thousandth of a whole. It is also one tenth of a hundredth and one hundredth of a tenth.
The thousandths place is commonly encountered in science, in the metric system of measure


    Reference: http://www.mcwdn.org/Decimals/Thousandths.html
Dmitry Kornyukhov
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Local time: 19:41
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few in thousand parts


Explanation:
It is an abstract term indicating "very little"

murthy isn
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Native speaker of: Native in HindiHindi, Native in EnglishEnglish
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