Look up: fifth

1. fifth
   [Noun] One of five equal parts. Also, the fifth of a number of things is the one you count as number five.
   Example: The pizza was cut into fifths.
   Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary
   
   
2. fifth
   [adj] - coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position 2. [n] - position five in a countable series of things 3. [n] - a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon 4. [n] - the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it
   Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio
   
   
3. fifth
   grade five(V)in the quality sorting of sawn timber,sawn wood Category: Various industries and crafts • head; skin; feet; claws; horns Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • the fifth wheel coupling in Section 1.3.7 are plate-like coupling de...
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
4. Fifth
   Fifth adjective [ Middle English fifte , fifthe , Anglo-Saxon fīfta . See Five .] 1. Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five. 2. Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing. <...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/26
   
   
5. Fifth
   Fifth noun 1. The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part. 2. (Mus.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/26
   
   
6. fifth
   1. Next in order after the fourth; the ordinal of five. ... 2. Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing. Fifth monarchy men, a fanatical sect in England, of the time of the commonwealth, who maintained that there would be a fifth universal monarchy, during which Christ would reign on ear...
   Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona
   
   
7. fifth
   5th adjective coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position
   Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web
   
   
8. fifth
   noun the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it
   Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web
   
   
9. fifth
   noun position five in a countable series of things; `he was fifth out of several hundred runners`
   Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web
   
   
10. Fifth
    • (n.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key. • (a.) Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing. • (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part. • (a.) Next...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
    
    
11. fifth
    (from the article `arts, East Asian`) ...tone systems while the two ends of the old continent (i.e., the West and China) generated 12 tones based on a cycle of pitches 5 tones apart (such ... Mixture stops also contain ranks sounding at pitches other than in octaves with the 8-foot principal. In chorus mixtures these sound at a fifth ab...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/f/23
    
    
12. Fifth
    In music a fifth is an interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow
    
    
13. Fifth
    [album] Fifth (the title is Fifth, the front cover shows the number 5), is a 1972 studio album by the Canterbury associated band Soft Machine. Fifth was the first Soft Machine album recorded after the departure of founding member Robert Wyatt and continued the band`s trend from their origina...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_(albu
    
    
14. Fifth
    An enhanced version of FORTH. M.S. Dissertation, Cliff Click (cliff@cs.rice.edu), Texas A&M, 1985. Available from the Software Construction Co, (409)696-5432.
    Found on http://foldoc.org/Fifth
    
    
15. fifth
    
    • position five in a countable series of things
    • the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it
    
    Found on
    
    
16. Fifth
    [chord] In music, the fifth factor of a chord is the note or pitch five scale degrees above the root or tonal center. When the fifth is the bass note, or lowest note, of the expressed chord, the chord is in second inversion Play. Conventionally, the fifth is second in importance to the root,...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_(chor
    
    
17. Fifth
    [unit] A fifth is a unit of volume formerly used for distilled beverages in the United States, and is equal to one fifth of a gallon, {frac|4|5} quart, or 25{frac|3|5} fluid ounces (757 mL); it has been superseded by the metric fifth of 750 mL, approximately 1% smaller, which is the standard...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_(unit
    
    
18. Fifth
    The interval between two notes. Three whole tones and one semitone make up the distance between the two notes.
    Found on http://www.classicalworks.com/html/gloss