Definition of sixth

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Sixth (a.) Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.

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Saxon :: Saxon (n.) One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries..
Inversion :: Inversion (n.) Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc..
Majusculae :: Majusculae (n. pl.) Capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier..
Sixthly :: Sixthly (adv.) In the sixth place.
Sixteenth :: Sixteenth (n.) The next in order after the fifteenth; the sixth after the tenth.
Supereminence :: Superdominant (n.) The sixth tone of the scale; that next above the dominant; -- called also submediant.
Instant :: Instant (a.) A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant, i. e., the current month. See Instant, a., 3..
Complement :: Complement (v. t.) The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third..
Breviary :: Breviary (n.) A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal..
La :: La (n.) A syllable applied to the sixth tone of the scale in music in solmization.
Propodite :: Propodite (n.) The sixth joint of a typical leg of a crustacean; usually, the penultimate joint..
Hexameter :: Hexameter (n.) A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity..
Seventh :: Seventh (a.) Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others.
Sext :: Sext (n.) The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary..
Sextillion :: Sextillion (n.) According to the method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-one ciphers annexed. According to the English method, a million raised to the sixth power, or the number expressed by a unit with thirty-six ciphers annexed. See Numeration..
Sixteenth :: Sixteenth (a.) Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.
Pandect :: Pandect (n.) The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law..
Sext :: Sext (n.) The sixth book of the decretals, added by Pope Boniface VIII..
Sixth :: Sixth (n.) The next in order after the fifth.
Sixth :: Sixth (a.) Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.
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