Sixth
[sɪksθ]
Definition
(noun.) the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it.
(noun.) position six in a countable series of things.
(adj.) coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position .
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Definition
(a.) First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.
(a.) Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole.
(n.) The next in order after the fifth.
(n.) The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.
Editor: Philip
Examples
- The load is supported by 6 strands, and each strand bears one sixth of the load. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The fifth corps reached the North Anna on the afternoon of the 23d, closely followed by the sixth corps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Rome mission was sent by Pope Gregory the Great just at the close of the sixth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I did not know, myself, until the sixth of this present month, when I went to look. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- For example, the sid e of a hexagon inscribed in a circle is equal to the radius, and is the chord of 60°, or of the sixth part of the circle. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The sixth Bounty of this kind was that granted by 11th Geo. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I returned to my old headquarters outside in the afternoon, and did not move into the town until the sixth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- An ordinary man can do one sixth of a horse power. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The trade that was going on in the ancient world before the sixth or seventh century B.C. was almost entirely a barter trade. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the sixth chapter I enumerated the chief objections which might be justly urged against the views maintained in this volume. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- This the Romans did by giving to two days in leap-year the same name; t hus the sixth day before the first of March was repeated, and leap-year was known as a bissextile year. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The difficulty of making a way through the dense forests prevented Burnside from getting up in time to be of any service on the forenoon of the sixth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There is good evidence of them at least as early as the sixth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nor is it a sixth impression, which the mind by reflection finds in itself. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Several hundred years later the days were divided into sections which were called hours, such as the sixth hour (noon), the ninth hour (three o’clock), the eleventh hour (five o’clock), etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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