26984 words

fourth

6 definitions • 10 examples
1
4th written as a word:

Examples:

the fourth of My birthday is on the fourth of December.
on the fourth Our next meeting is on the fourth.
come fourth Daniel came fourth in the race.
2
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Examples:

Three fourths of his students, or 75%, come from the local area.
3
the distance between two musical notes that are four notes apart:

Examples:

These intervals - octaves, fifths and fourths - are the ones that appear recurrently in folk songs across the world, as well as in classical music.
These chords with augmented fourths are strongly dissonant.
4
(in the position of) the number 4 in a series; 4th:

Examples:

Mark finished fourth in the race.
[ C ] My birthday is on the fourth of December.
5
A fourth is one of four equal parts of something.
6
relating to the last three-month period of a company's financial year:

Examples:

Manufacturing output fell 0.2% in the fourth quarter.
the company's fourth-period vehicle production plans

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