Sekirov Dictionary

ninth

/naɪnθ/

noun 3
verb 2
adjective 1
forms 3
phrases 2

noun3

The person or thing in the ninth position.
One of nine equal parts of a whole.
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).

verb2

•
To divide by nine.
- 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. — 2014
•
To lose a ninth.
- οὐ[δ̓] ὲνατεὐεται, 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). — 1973

adjective1

The ordinal form of the number nine.

forms

ninthed · ninthing · ninths

Phrases with ninth

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