Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sixth"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sixth \Sixth\, n.
1. The quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal
parts which form a whole.
2. The next in order after the fifth.
3. (Mus.) The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the
scale.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sixth \Sixth\, a. [From Six: cf. AS. sixta, siexta.]
1. First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.
2. Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which
anything is divided.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sixth
adj : coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in
position [syn: {6th}]
n 1: position six in a countable series of things
2: a sixth part [syn: {one-sixth}]
3: the musical interval between one note and another six notes
away from it
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