thousand

(thou'zənd)
n.
The cardinal number equal to 10 × 100 or 10³.

[Middle English, from Old English thūsend.]

thousand thou'sand adj. & pron.

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Ten 100s; = 1000 or 1,000 or 1 000, the punctuation usually being omitted until a further digit is involved. The scale of thousands, showing US terms, then the distinctive traditional British and European terms, is set out in Table 55.

		US	UK trad	European trad
1 0001	103	thousand	thousand	millier
1 0002	106	million	million	million
1 0003	109	billion	milliard	milliard
1 0004	1012	trillion	billion
1 0005	1015	quadrillion
1 0006	1018	quintillion	trillion
1 0007	1021	sextillion
1 0008	1024	septillion	quadrillion
1 0009	1027	octillion
1 00010	1030	nonillion	quintillion
1 00011	1033	decillion

It should be noted that the traditional British terms relate the Latin etymology to the powers of a million, while the American relate it to the powers of a thousand that multiply the basic thousand; e.g. the bi- (i.e. 2) of billion relates
for UK to (million)², = 1 000 000² = 10^6×2 = 10¹²,
for USA to (thousand)² × thousand, = 1000⁽²⁺¹⁾ = 10^3×(2+1) = 10⁹.

Despite the 13th CGPM in 1948 recommending the British/European forms, the American forms are the more prevalent, even in the UK.

However, they are yielding in either sense to expressions formed from the prefixes of the SI system (e.g. ‘megabucks’). The use of the old terms above a million in a scientific context is highly undesirable.

IN BRIEF: The number represented by the numeral 1000. Also: The product of multiplying one hundred times ten.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu (c.604-531 B.C.)

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Dansk (Danish)
num. - tusinde
n. - tusind

idioms:

• Thousand Island dressing    Thousand Island dressing

Nederlands (Dutch)
duizend(tal), talloos

Français (French)
n. - mille, millier
adj. - mille, millier

idioms:

• Thousand Island dressing    sauce salade (à base de mayonnaise et de tomates et poivrons)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Tausend, Tausender
adj. - tausend

idioms:

• Thousand Island dressing    Salatsoße aus Mayonnaise, Ketchup und versch. Gewürzen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - χίλιοι, χίλιες, χίλια
pron. - χίλιοι, χίλιες, χίλια, χιλιάδα, (πληθ.) μεγάλος αριθμός, μιλιούνια

idioms:

• Thousand Island dressing    σάλτσα με μαγιονέζα

Italiano (Italian)
migliaio, mille

idioms:

• Thousand Island dressing    salsa delle mille isole

Português (Portuguese)
n. - o número mil (m), milhar (m)
num. - mil
pron. - milheiro

idioms:

• Thousand Island dressing    tipo de molho para a salada (Cul.)

Русский (Russian)
тысяча

idioms:

• Thousand Island dressing    подливка для салата

Español (Spanish)
n. - millar, mil
adj. - mil

idioms:

• Thousand Island dressing    mayonesa sazonada

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - tusen, tusental, tusende
pron. - tusen

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
一千, 一千个, 数千, 许许多多, 无数

idioms:

• Thousand Island dressing    千岛沙拉酱

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
num. - 一千, 一千個
n. - 一千, 數千, 一千個, 許許多多, 無數

idioms:

• Thousand Island dressing    千島沙拉醬

한국어 (Korean)
num. - 1000
n. - 천의, 천 개의, 무수한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 千の, 多数の, 無数の
n. - 千, 千の数字, 千個, 千ドル, 何千, 無数

idioms:

• Thousand Island dressing    サザンアイランドドレッシング, サウザンドアイランドドレッシング

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الف‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אלף‬

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