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Thousandth vs Millikelvin - What's the difference?

thousandth | millikelvin |

As nouns the difference between thousandth and millikelvin

is that thousandth is (singular only) the person or thing in the thousandth position while millikelvin is millikelvin.

As an adjective thousandth

is the ordinal form of the number one thousand.

thousandth

English

Adjective

(-)
  • The ordinal form of the number one thousand.

    • Abbreviations

    1000th, 1000th (also written with a comma following the 1 or, in technical usage, with a thin space following the 1 )

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (singular only) The person or thing in the thousandth position.
  • One of a thousand equal parts of a whole.
  • * 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XIV:
    • "Ah, Alan," murmured Dorian with a sigh, "I wish you had a thousandth part of the pity for me that I have for you."

    See also

    * one-thousandth

    millikelvin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One thousandth of a kelvin
  • *{{quote-journal, 1997, date=June 20, Richard Stone, Space Research Centers Search for New Frontier, Science citation
    • , passage=ILT's device cools samples to several millikelvins , cold enough to freeze helium. }}
  • *{{quote-journal, 1998, date=July 24, Takeshi Inoshita, CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS: Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots, Science citation
    • , passage=This zero-bias maximum disappears as temperature is raised above several hundred millikelvin , in agreement with theory ( 8 ): Because V'' sd is equal to the separation between the Fermi levels of the two leads, finite ''V sd splits the Kondo resonance into two peaks. }}

    Synonyms

    *mK

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to the temperature range at which temperatures are expressed in s
  • *{{quote-journal, 1998, date=January 30, John Schiffer, PHYSICS: Sparse Crystals, Science citation
    • , passage=The temperatures required for producing a crystalline solid out of such a "one-component plasma" (3 ) are in the millikelvin range. }}
  • *{{quote-journal, 2001, date=January 12, A. Yu. Kasumov et al., Proximity-Induced Superconductivity in DNA, Science citation
    • , passage=These results imply that DNA molecules can be conducting down to millikelvin temperature and that phase coherence is maintained over several hundred nanometers. }}