The total precipitation was only a few thousandths of a millimeter. In the United States, foils are commonly measured in thousandths of an inch or mils. The bursts last for several milliseconds (thousandths of a second). Rolled ball screws have a positional precision of several thousandths of an inch per foot. These small angles may also be written in milliarcseconds (mas), or thousandths of an arcsecond. The .357 was named to reflect bullet diameter (in thousandths inch), not case diameter. The result will be the diameter expressed in thousandths of an inch. The displacements measured are extremely small, typically only several thousandths of an inch. A ten thousandths pin kit is rarely sold. The graduations are those of standard wire, or in thousandths of an inch. This lets workers control part dimensions to within thousandths of an inch or better. These cause changes of just a few thousandths of a magnitude. Where mere thousandths of a second can separate winners, precise teamwork is an absolute necessity. His time edged out Trulli's Toyota by just three thousandths of a second. Note that it is only two thousandths larger than the value from the Dirac equation.