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Meaning of SIXTH

Pronunciation:  siksth

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it
  2. [n]  a sixth part
  3. [n]  position six in a countable series of things
  4. [adj]  coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position
 
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 Synonyms: 6th, one-sixth, ordinal
 
 See Also: common fraction, interval, musical interval, rank, simple fraction

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Sixth\, a. [From Six: cf. AS. sixta, siexta.]
    1. First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.
    2. Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which
       anything is divided.
    
  2. \Sixth\, n.
    1. The quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal
       parts which form a whole.
    2. The next in order after the fifth.
    3. (Mus.) The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the
       scale.
    
 

 

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