ninth

 
Pronunciation: /ˈnʌɪnθ/

ordinal number

  • 1constituting number nine in a sequence; 9th: the ninth century the ninth of March
  • the ninth finisher or position in a race or competition: he came in ninth
  • Music an interval spanning nine consecutive notes in a diatonic scale.
  • Music the note which is higher by a ninth than the tonic of a diatonic scale or root of a chord.
  • Music a chord in which the ninth note of the scale forms an important component.
  • 2each of nine equal parts into which something is or may be divided.

Derivatives

ninthly

adverb

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