8TH

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 8th mean? 

• 8TH (adjective)
  The adjective 8TH has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the seventh and just before the ninth in position

  Familiarity information: 8TH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 8TH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the seventh and just before the ninth in position

Synonyms:

8th; eighth

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)

 Context examples 

It affects predominantly white males in their 6-8th decades of life.

(Bowen Disease of the Skin, NCI Thesaurus)

Polyunsaturated fatty acid with 18 carbons and 2 double bonds at the 6th and 8th carbons from the methyl end.

(Conjugated Linoleic Acid n-6, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

The first PMD prototype, which interacts with these asphalt codes, was successfully presented at the 8th European Asphalt Technology Association (EATA) Conference in Granada (3–5 June 2019).

(Scientists design “smart” asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters, University of Granada)

The cochlear part of the 8th cranial nerve (VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE).

(Cochlear Nerve, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

8th, That the said man-mountain shall, in two moons’ time, deliver in an exact survey of the circumference of our dominions, by a computation of his own paces round the coast.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A polyunsaturated long-chain fatty acid with an 18-carbon backbone and double bonds originating from the 4th position and either the 7th position or the 8th position from the methyl end.

(Octadecadienoic Acid n-4, NCI Thesaurus)

He was four-and-twenty the 8th of last June, and my birthday is the 23rd just a fortnight and a day's difference—which is very odd.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A polyunsaturated long-chain fatty acid with an 18-carbon backbone and double bonds originating from the 6th position and the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th or 13th positions from the methyl end.

(Octadecadienoic Acid n-6 trans, NCI Thesaurus)

A polyunsaturated long-chain fatty acid with a 16-carbon backbone and 4 double bonds, originating from the 4th, 8th, 10th and 14th positions from the methyl end.

(Hexadecatetraenoic Acid n-4, NCI Thesaurus)

A monounsaturated medium-chain fatty acid with a 12-carbon backbone and the sole double bond originating from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th or 10th position from the methyl end.

(Dodecenoic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)