ninth

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Pronunciation

• (British, America) enPR: nīnth, IPA: /naɪnθ/

Adjective

ninth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number nine.

Synonyms

• 9th, (in names of monarchs and popes) IX

Translations

• French: neuvième (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) neuf (after the name) (abbreviation IX)
• German: neunte
• Italian: nono (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) nono, (after the name) (abbreviation IX)
• Portuguese: nono
• Russian: девя́тый
• Spanish: noveno, nono

Noun

ninth (plural ninths)

1. The person or thing in the ninth position.
2. One of nine equal parts of a whole.
3. (music) The compound interval between any tone and the tone represented on the ninth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and two of the octave above; the octave of the second, consisting of 13 or 14 semitones (called minor and major ninth).

Translations

• French: neuvième
• German: Neunter
• Italian: nono, nona
• Portuguese: nono, nona
• Spanish: noveno, novena

Translations

• French: neuvième
• German: Neuntel
• Italian: nono
• Portuguese: nono
• Spanish: noveno

Verb

ninth (ninths, present participle ninthing; past and past participle ninthed)

1. to lose a ninth
   • 1973 Herakles on Thasos ↗, page 79

     £vateueTai, should be translated "a tithe (offering or fee) is not given (or paid)", "no tithing" (literally, "a ninth is not given", "no ninth-ing", if I may coin such a word).

   • 2010 Religion and Reconciliation in Greek Cities: The Sacred Laws of Selinus and Cyrene ↗ page 161

     A yearling "is ninthed" for Semele on Myconos (LSCG 96.23–24); the victim "is not ninthed" for Heracles Thasios

2. to divide by nine
   • 2014 Contributions to Survey Sampling and Applied Statistics: Papers in Honor of H.O Hartley ↗

     THE NINTHER-MEAN COMBINATION When data are only a little worse than usual, so far as wild and straggling values are concerned, we can do well enough by taking means of the results of ninthing.

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