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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Bar :: Bar (n.) An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field..
Thursday :: Thursday (n.) The fifth day of the week, following Wednesday and preceding Friday..
Pseudocoelia :: Pseudocoelia (n.) The fifth ventricle in the mammalian brain. See Ventricle.
Inversion :: Inversion (n.) Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc..
Triad :: Triad (n.) The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave..
Half-fish :: Half-fish (n.) A salmon in its fifth year of growth.
Quintic :: Quintic (a.) Of the fifth degree or order.
Fifth :: Fifth (a.) Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.
Quintan :: Quintan (a.) Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever..
May :: May (n.) The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days..
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..
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..
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..
Quintic :: Quintic (n.) A quantic of the fifth degree. See Quantic.
Ocean :: Ocean (n.) The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the sea, or great sea..
Bend :: Bend (n.) One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base..
Leo :: Leo (n.) The Lion, the fifth sign of the zodiac, marked thus [/] in almanacs..
Frank :: Frank (a.) A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France..
Viola :: Viola (n.) An instrument in form and use resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass..
Biquintile :: Biquintile (n.) An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle -- that is, twice 72 degrees..
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