Fifth

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Fifth is the ordinal form of the number five.

Fifth may refer to:

• Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "Pleading the Fifth"
• 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
• 1st Battalion 5th Marines
• Fifth (Stargate), a robotic character in the television series Stargate SG-1
• Fifth-generation programming language
• The fifth in a series, or four after the first: see ordinal numbers (linguistics)
• Fifth (unit), a unit of volume used for distilled beverages in the U.S.
• A quintile, or 20%
• A fraction, such as 1/5

Music

• A musical interval; specifically, a
  • perfect fifth,
  • diminished fifth, or
  • augmented fifth
• Quintal harmony, in which chords concatenate fifth intervals (rather than the third intervals of tertian harmony).

• Fifth (chord)
  • A chord member separated from the chord's root by one of the above fifth-intervals
  • The dominant or fifth diatonic scale degree, and the chord built on it

• Musical compositions
  • Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven) is commonly referred to as Beethoven's Fifth
  • Fifth (album), an album by Soft Machine
  • The Fifth (album), an album by Dizzee Rascal

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