Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ninth"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Ninth \Ninth\, a. [From {Nine}; cf. AS. nigo[eth]a.]
1. Following the eight and preceding the tenth; coming after
eight others.

2. Constituting or being one of nine equal parts into which
anything is divided.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Ninth \Ninth\, n.
1. The quotient of one divided by nine; one of nine equal
parts of a thing; the next after the eighth.

2. (Mus.)
(a) An interval containing an octave and a second.
(b) A chord of the dominant seventh with the ninth added.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

ninth
adj : coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in
position [syn: {9th}]
n 1: position nine in a countable series of things; "going into
the ninth they were a run ahead"
2: a ninth part [syn: {one-ninth}]


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