NINTH

a. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Following the eight and preceding the tenth; coming after eight others.

2.
a.

Constituting or being one of nine equal parts into which anything is divided.

3.
n.

The quotient of one divided by nine; one of nine equal parts of a thing; the next after the eighth.

4.
n.

An interval containing an octave and a second.

5.
n.

A chord of the dominant seventh with the ninth added.


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