sixth
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /sɪk(s)θ/, [sɪk(s)θ], [sɪk(s)t̪] (before a consonant often reduced to [sɪks])
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.
- Transliterated: And God saw everything that he had made: and behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
- 6th, 6th; (in names of monarchs and popes) VI
- French: sixième (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) six (after the name) (abbreviation VI)
- German: sechste
- Italian: sesto (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) sesto m, sesta f (after the name) (abbreviation VI)
- Portuguese: sexto
- Russian: шесто́й
- Spanish: sexto
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.)
- (one of six equal parts) ⅙
- French: sixième
- German: Sechster
- Italian: sesto, sesta
- Portuguese: sexto, sexta
- Russian: шесто́й
- Spanish: sexto
- German: Sexte
sixth (sixths, present participle sixthing; 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
- French sixth
- Italian sixth
- major sixth
- minor sixth
- sixth sense
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