Definition of fifth

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Fifth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.

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Guy :: Guy (n.) A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot..
Triad :: Triad (n.) The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave..
Cuboid :: Cuboid (n.) The bone of the tarsus, which, in man and most mammals, supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth toes..
Dimension :: Dimension (n.) A literal factor, as numbered in characterizing a term. The term dimensions forms with the cardinal numbers a phrase equivalent to degree with the ordinal; thus, a2b2c is a term of five dimensions, or of the fifth degree..
Sol :: Sol (n.) A syllable applied in solmization to the note G, or to the fifth tone of any diatonic scale..
Thursday :: Thursday (n.) The fifth day of the week, following Wednesday and preceding Friday..
Naked :: Naked (a.) Not having the full complement of tones; -- said of a chord of only two tones, which requires a third tone to be sounded with them to make the combination pleasing to the ear; as, a naked fourth or fifth..
Quintan :: Quintan (a.) Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever..
Nitrogen :: Nitrogen (n.) A colorless nonmetallic element, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume. It is chemically very inert in the free state, and as such is incapable of supporting life (hence the name azote still used by French chemists); but it forms many important compounds, as ammonia, nitric acid, the cyanides, etc, and is a constituent of all organized living tissues, animal or vegetable. Symbol N. Atomic weight 14. It was formerly regarded as a permanent noncon
Nones :: Nones (n. pl.) The fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November, and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July, and October. The nones were nine days before the ides, reckoning inclusively, according to the Roman method..
Half-fish :: Half-fish (n.) A salmon in its fifth year of growth.
Diazeutic :: Diazeutic (a.) Disjoining two fourths; as, the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth..
Pseudotetramera :: Pseudotetramera (n. pl.) A division of beetles having the fifth tarsal joint minute and obscure, so that there appear to be but four joints..
Choliambic :: Choliambic (n.) A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last..
Quintine :: Quintine (n.) The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf. Quartine, and Tercine..
May :: May (n.) The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days..
Pharyngeal :: Pharyngeal (n.) A pharyngeal bone or cartilage; especially, one of the lower pharyngeals, which belong to the rudimentary fifth branchial arch in many fishes, or one of the upper pharyngeals, or pharyngobranchials, which are the dorsal elements in the complete branchial arches..
Diapente :: Diapente (n.) The interval of the fifth.
Subduable :: Subdominant (n.) The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; -- so called as being under the dominant..
Quinible :: Quinible (n.) An interval of a fifth; also, a part sung with such intervals..
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