FIFTH

Fifth

In music, the fifth factor of a chord is the note or pitch five scale degrees above the root or tonal center. When the fifth is the bass note, or lowest note, of the expressed chord, the chord is in second inversion .

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fifth

Noun

  1. The person or thing in the fifth position.
  2. One of five equal parts of a whole.
  3. The fifth gear of an engine.
  4. A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of a gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters.
  5. The musical interval between one note and another five tones higher.
  6. The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.

Adjective

  1. The ordinal form of the number five.


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