NINTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ninth mean? 

• NINTH (noun)
  The noun NINTH has 2 senses:

1. position nine in a countable series of things

2. one part in nine equal parts

  Familiarity information: NINTH used as a noun is rare.

• NINTH (adjective)
  The adjective NINTH has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position

  Familiarity information: NINTH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NINTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Position nine in a countable series of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Context example:

going into the ninth they were a run ahead

Hypernyms ("ninth" is a kind of...):

rank (relative status)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One part in nine equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

ninth; one-ninth

Hypernyms ("ninth" is a kind of...):

common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)

• NINTH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position

Synonyms:

9th; ninth

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

Your ninth house, Capricorn, is where the December 25 solar eclipse, along with Jupiter, Pluto, Saturn, and the Sun will gather.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The designation for each member of the ninth largest human autosomal chromosome pair.

(Chromosome 9, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of measure of quantity of organisms expressed in 10 to the ninth power of organisms.

(Billion Organisms, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The ninth version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), published by the World Health Organization in 1977.

(International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, NCI Thesaurus)

On the ninth of January, now four days ago, I received by the evening delivery a registered envelope, addressed in the hand of my colleague and old school companion, Henry Jekyll.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Fine downy hair that covers the body of a human fetus beginning in the fifth month of gestation; it is usually shed by the ninth month of gestation.

(Lanugo, NCI Thesaurus)

Signed and sealed on the fourth day of the eighty-ninth moon of your majesty’s auspicious reign.

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

A unit of measurement equal to 10 to the ninth power of the number of entities per unit of volume equal to one liter.

(Billion per Liter, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A non-neoplastic or neoplastic disorder affecting the glossopharyngeal nerve (ninth cranial nerve).

(Glossopharyngeal Nerve Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by involvement of the glossopharyngeal nerve (ninth cranial nerve).

(Glossopharyngeal Nerve Disorder, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)