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Noun: thousand  thaw-zund
  1. The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
    "The cost of the project exceeded a thousand"; "The book had over one thousand pages";
    - one thousand, 1000, M, K, G, thou [informal]
Adjective: thousand  thaw-zund
  1. Denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units
    - one thousand, 1000, m, k
Adverb: thousand-fold
  1. By three orders of magnitude
    "this poison is a thousand-fold more toxic";
    - thousand times

See also: cardinal

Type of: large integer

Encyclopedia: Thousand