millesimal
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Sir John Leslie says:—“Under a clear blue sky, the æthrioscope will sometimes indicate a cold of fifty millesimal degrees; yet, on other days, when the air seems equally bright, the effect is hardly 30°.”
From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Negretti, Henry
Adj. quinquefid, quinquelateral, quinquepartite; quinqevalent, pentavalent; quinquarticular†; octifid†; decimal, tenth, tithe; duodecimal, twelfth; sexagesimal†, sexagenary†; hundredth, centesimal; millesimal &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
