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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Sixth :: Sixth (a.) First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.
Complement :: Complement (v. t.) The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third..
Quintan :: Quintan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days..
Viola :: Viola (n.) An instrument in form and use resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass..
Thursday :: Thursday (n.) The fifth day of the week, following Wednesday and preceding Friday..
Half-fish :: Half-fish (n.) A salmon in its fifth year of growth.
Diapente :: Diapente (n.) The interval of the 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..
Twelfth :: Twelfth (n.) An interval comprising an octave and a fifth.
Choliambic :: Choliambic (n.) A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last..
Fugue :: Fugue (n.) A polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. The theme is first given out by one voice or part, and then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fifth or fourth, and so on, until all the parts have answered one by one, continuing their several melodies and interweaving them in one complex progressive whole, in which the theme is often lost and reappears..
Rubber :: Rubber (n.) In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist..
Sol :: Sol (n.) A syllable applied in solmization to the note G, or to the fifth tone of any diatonic scale..
Avenue :: Avenue (n.) A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York..
Leo :: Leo (n.) The Lion, the fifth sign of the zodiac, marked thus [/] in almanacs..
Trigeminal :: Trigeminal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which divide on each side of the head into three main branches distributed to the orbits, jaws, and parts of the mouth; trifacial..
Cuboid :: Cuboid (n.) The bone of the tarsus, which, in man and most mammals, supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth toes..
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..
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..
Pseudocoelia :: Pseudocoelia (n.) The fifth ventricle in the mammalian brain. See Ventricle.
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