Definition of fifth

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Fifth (n.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key..

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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..
Nineteenth :: Nineteenth (n.) An interval of two octaves and a fifth.
Minimus :: Minimus (n.) The little finger; the fifth digit, or that corresponding to it, in either the manus or pes..
Xeraphim :: Xeraphim (n.) An old money of account in Bombay, equal to three fifths of a rupee..
Bordure :: Bordure (n.) A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged..
Fifthly :: Fifthly (adv.) In the fifth place; as the fifth in order.
Y :: Y () Y, the twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, at the beginning of a word or syllable, except when a prefix (see Y-), is usually a fricative vocal consonant; as a prefix, and usually in the middle or at the end of a syllable, it is a vowel. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 145, 178-9, 272..
Drone :: Drone (v. i.) That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth..
Cuboid :: Cuboid (n.) The bone of the tarsus, which, in man and most mammals, supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth toes..
Fifth :: Fifth (n.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key..
Bar :: Bar (n.) An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field..
Quintic :: Quintic (n.) A quantic of the fifth degree. See Quantic.
Dominant :: Dominant (n.) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on..
Deuteronomy :: Deuteronomy (n.) The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses..
Quinible :: Quinible (n.) An interval of a fifth; also, a part sung with such intervals..
Pseudocoelia :: Pseudocoelia (n.) The fifth ventricle in the mammalian brain. See Ventricle.
May :: May (n.) The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days..
Complement :: Complement (v. t.) The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third..
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..
Sapphic :: Sapphic (a.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl..
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