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Sixth
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- 1 The ordinal form of the number six. not-comparable
"And * God ſaw euery thing that hee had made : and behold, it was very good. And the euening and the moꝛning were the ſixth day."
- 1 coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position wordnet
- 1 The person or thing in the sixth position.
- 2 the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it wordnet
- 3 One of six equal parts of a whole.
"On the moon, however the weight of a pound-mass (lb or lbm) is only about one sixth of a pound-force (lbf)."
- 4 one part in six equal parts wordnet
- 5 The interval between one note and another, five notes higher in the scale; for example C to A, a major sixth, or C to A flat, a minor sixth.
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- 6 position six in a countable series of things wordnet
- 1 To divide by six, equivalent to multiplying a denominator by six. informal, nonstandard, rare
"Why would anyone use sixthing when any (N − a²) divisible by 6 would also be divisible by 3? The answer is that sometimes the numerator and/or the denominator is simpler in sixthing,"
Etymology
From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô. By surface analysis, six + -th (ordinal suffix).
From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô. By surface analysis, six + -th (ordinal suffix).
From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô. By surface analysis, six + -th (ordinal suffix).
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