Definition of eighth

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Eighth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.

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Octave :: Octave (n.) A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe..
Rondel :: Rondel (n.) Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth..
Utas :: Utas (n.) The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael..
Ribbon :: Ribbon (n.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide..
Levy :: Levy (n.) A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d..
Acetabulum :: Acetabulum (n.) A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc..
Trioctile :: Trioctile (n.) An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are three octants, or three eighths of a circle, that is, 135 degrees, distant from each other..
Acetable :: Acetable (n.) An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint.
Octave :: Octave (n.) The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival..
Octic :: Octic (n.) A quantic of the eighth degree.
August :: August (a.) The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days..
Krishna :: Krishna (n.) The most popular of the Hindoo divinities, usually held to be the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu..
Octant :: Octant (n.) The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.
Masora :: Masora (n.) A Jewish critical work on the text of the Hebrew Scriptures, composed by several learned rabbis of the school of Tiberias, in the eighth and ninth centuries..
Viking :: Viking (n.) One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries..
Endorse :: Endorse (n.) A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth)..
Consonancy :: Consonancy (n.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth..
Value :: Value (n.) The relative length or duration of a tone or note, answering to quantity in prosody; thus, a quarter note [/] has the value of two eighth notes [/]..
Hair''sbreadth :: Hair'sbreadth () The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch..
Octennial :: Octennial (a.) Happening every eighth year; also, lasting a period of eight years..
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