Fifth

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Fifth is the ordinal form of the number five.

Fifth or The Fifth may refer to:

  • Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth"
  • Fifth Avenue
  • Fifth column, a political term
  • Fifth disease, a contagious rash that spreads in school-aged children
  • Fifth force, a proposed force of nature in addition to the four known fundamental forces
  • Fifth of July (New York), historic celebration of an Emancipation Day in New York
  • Fifth (Stargate), a robotic character in the television series Stargate SG-1
  • Fifth (unit), a unit of volume formerly used for distilled beverages in the U.S.
  • 1st Battalion, 5th Marines
  • The fraction 1/5
  • The royal fifth (Spanish and Portuguese), an old royal tax of 20%

Music

  • A musical interval (music); specifically, a
    • perfect fifth
    • diminished fifth
    • augmented fifth
  • Quintal harmony, in which chords concatenate fifth intervals (rather than the third intervals of tertian harmony)
  • Fifth (chord)
    • A chord (music), member separated from the chord's root by one of the above fifth-intervals
    • The dominant (music) or fifth diatonic scale degree, and the chord built on it
  • Musical compositions
    • Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven), commonly referred to as Beethoven's Fifth
    • Fifth (Soft Machine album), 1972
    • The Fifth (Bad Boys Blue album), 1989
    • The Fifth (Dizzee Rascal album), 2013
    • The Fifth (Obie Trice album), 2019
    • 5th (Lee Michaels album), 1971
    • Fifth (The Autumn Defense album), 2014
    • "Fifths" (song), a song by deadmau5
  • The Fifth (band), a hard rock band from Fayetteville, North Carolina
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