sixth
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Cardinal: six Ordinal: sixth Multiplier: sextuple, sixfold Distributive: sextuply |
Alternative forms
- sixt (obsolete)
Etymology
From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɪk(s)θ/, [sɪk(s)θ], [sɪk(s)t̪] (before a consonant often reduced to [sɪks])
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪksθ, -ɪkθ
- Homophone: six (frequent reduced form before a consonant)
Adjective
sixth (not comparable)
- The ordinal form of the number six.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 1:31:
- 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.
- 1892, Western Association of Writers, Sayings and Doings of the Sixth General Meeting, Jones Brothers Publishing Company, pages 271-272:
- Dr. Ridpath, in his usual happy manner, thanked the Executive Committee and the various members of the Association who had so earnestly cooperated with him in the work of the Sixth Annual Meeting now drawing to a close.
- 2011 February 25, Peter Dicken, Global Shift, Sixth Edition: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy, Guilford Press, page xi:
- As this sixth edition is published in 2011, it is exactly 25 years since the publication of the first edition in 1986. That, in itself, is a very sobering thought, for all kinds of reasons.
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Translations
ordinal form of the number six — See also translations at 6th
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Noun
sixth (plural sixths)
- (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the sixth position.
- One of six equal parts of a whole.
- (music) 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. (Note that the interval covers six notes counting inclusively, for example C-D-E-F-G-A.)
Synonyms
- (one of six equal parts): ⅙
Translations
person or thing in sixth place
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one of six equal parts of a whole
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Verb
sixth (third-person singular simple present sixths, present participle sixthing, simple past and past participle sixthed)
- to divide by six, which also means multiplying a denominator by six
- 1993 Dead Reckoning: Calculating Without Instruments page 102
- 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,
- 1993 Dead Reckoning: Calculating Without Instruments page 102
Related terms
- French sixth
- Italian sixth
- major sixth
- minor sixth
- sixth sense
References
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