ninth

Meanings

Plural: ninths

Noun

• position nine in a countable series of things
  • "going into the ninth they were a run ahead"
• one part in nine equal parts
• The person or thing in the ninth position.
• One of nine equal parts of a whole.
• The compound interval between any tone and the tone represented on the ninth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and two of the octave above; the octave of the second, consisting of 13 or 14 semitones (called minor and major ninth).

Adjective Satellite

• coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position

Adj

• The ordinal form of the number nine.

Verb

• To lose a ninth.
• To divide by nine.

Synonyms

9th, IX, IXth, one-ninth

Anagrams of ninth