fourth
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fourth/fɔːθ/
▶ordinal number
- 1 constituting number four in a sequence; 4th.
- 2 (a fourth/one fourth) chiefly N. Amer. a quarter.
- 3 Music an interval spanning four consecutive notes in a diatonic scale, in particular (also perfect fourth) an interval of two tones and a semitone.
■ Music the note which is higher by this interval than the tonic of a diatonic scale or root of a chord.
– phrases
the fourth estate the press; journalism.
the fourth estate the press; journalism.
– derivatives
fourthly adverb.
fourthly adverb.
'fourth' also found in these Oxford entries:
abomasum
- April
- Cancer
- clean-up
- Cmd.
- cuboid
- D
- delta
- Devonian
- diplotene
- discord
- dummy
- F
- fah
- farl
- farthing
- firkin
- fourth dimension
- Fourth World
- garage
- hexachord
- hour
- Julian calendar
- major
- Mars
- martlet
- Miocene
- Mothering Sunday
- Mother's Day
- orrery
- pterosaur
- quadrille
- quart
- quartan
- quarter
- quartet
- quartic
- quartile
- quarto
- quaternary
- Shia
- sixty-fourth note
- Sub-Boreal
- subdominant
- Tebet
- tetrachord
- Thammuz
- thanksgiving
- tibia
