fifth

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Thus in a clang composed of a tone and its fifth, the first partial of the fifth is the second partial of the prime, and the vibration ratios are as two to three.

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  1. noun The ordinal number matching the number five in a series.
  2. noun One of five equal parts.
  3. noun One fifth of a gallon or four fifths of a quart of liquor.

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  • Four of these are reviews of sermons, and the fifth is a slashing attack on John Bowles, [20] who had published an alarmist pamphlet on the designs of France. —  Sydney Smith
  • Before the next morning a fifth was added to the group. —  Harriet The Moses of Her People
  • I will be dead tomorrow, and she will wed the old man who dotes on her, or someone else. —  The Shadow of the Torturer
  • Thus in a clang composed of a tone and its fifth, the first partial of the fifth is the second partial of the prime, and the vibration ratios are as two to three. —  The Principles of Aesthetics
  • Cause met effect. —  The Zero
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English fīfta; see penkwe in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also fift; from Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Anglo-Saxon fīfta = Old Saxon fifto = OFries. fīfta = Dutch vijfde = Middle Low German vīfte, vifte, Low German fīfte, föfte = Old High German fimfto, finfto, Middle High German G. fünfto = Icelandic fimmti = Swedish Danish femte = Gothic (Moesogothic) *fimfta (not recorded) = Latin quintus = Greek πέμ πτος = Sanskrit panchatha (very rare: usually panchama, with different suffix), fifth; from Anglo-Saxon fīf, English five, etc., + -tha, -ta, -th, ordinal suffix.
 

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