SIXTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sixth mean? 

• SIXTH (noun)
  The noun SIXTH has 3 senses:

1. position six in a countable series of things

2. one part in six equal parts

3. the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it

  Familiarity information: SIXTH used as a noun is uncommon.

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIXTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Position six in a countable series of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

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

rank (relative status)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One part in six equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

one-sixth; sixth

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

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

The musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

interval; musical interval (the difference in pitch between two notes)

• SIXTH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

6th; sixth

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

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

(Million Organisms, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

First, note what happens on March 8, when Venus will be conjunct Uranus in your sixth house of work projects.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

One of the two pairs in the sixth group (or group F) of human chromosomes according to the current classification for humans.

(Chromosome 19, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

In the Kepler-80 system, they found a sixth planet.

(Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star, NASA)

The unit of concentration expressed as the number of 10 to the sixth power copies in unit volume equal to one milliliter.

(Million Copies per Milliliter, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Chromosome 6, NCI Thesaurus)

Placed on the sixth ICS on the right side of the thorax along a line parallel to the level of the point of the elbow.

(Lead Site CV5RL, NCI Thesaurus)

It predominantly affects adults in their fifth and sixth decades of life and is associated with alcohol and tobacco use.

(Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It most often affects males in their sixth and seventh decades of life.

(Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Although it can affect any age, it is more commonly seen in the fourth to sixth decades of life.

(Benign Schwannoma, NCI Thesaurus)