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Fiveth vs. Fifth

Fiveth and Fifth Definitions

Fiveth

(obsolete) Fifth.

Fifth

The ordinal number matching the number five in a series.

Fifth

One of five equal parts.

Fifth

One fifth of a gallon or four fifths of a quart of liquor.

Fifth

A tone five degrees above or below a given tone in a diatonic scale.

Fifth

The interval between two such tones.
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Fifth

The harmonic combination of two such tones.

Fifth

The dominant of a scale or key.

Fifth

Fifth The Fifth Amendment. Used with the.

Fifth

The ordinal form of the number five.

Fifth

The person or thing in the fifth position.

Fifth

One of five equal parts of a whole.
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Fifth

The fifth gear of an engine.

Fifth

A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of a gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).

Fifth

(music) The musical interval between one note and another seven semitones higher (the fifth note in the major/minor scale)

Fifth

The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.

Fifth

(music) To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.

Fifth

(transitive) To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.
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Fifth

To divide by five.

Fifth

Next in order after the fourth; - the ordinal of five.

Fifth

Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.

Fifth

The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.

Fifth

The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.

Fifth

A quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon

Fifth

Position five in a countable series of things;
He was fifth out of several hundred runners

Fifth

A fifth part

Fifth

The musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it

Fifth

Coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position

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