What does Fourth mean?

Definitions for Fourth
fɔrθ, foʊrθfourth

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fourthnoun

    following the third position; number four in a countable series

  2. one-fourth, fourth, one-quarter, quarter, fourth part, twenty-five percent, quarternnoun

    one of four equal parts

    "a quarter of a pound"

  3. fourthadjective

    the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it

  4. fourth, 4th, quaternaryadverb

    coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude

    "the quaternary period of geologic time extends from the end of the tertiary period to the present"

  5. fourthly, fourthadverb

    in the fourth place

    "fourthly, you must pay the rent on the first of the month"

Wiktionary

  1. fourthnoun

    The person or thing in the fourth position.

  2. fourthnoun

    A quarter, one of four equal parts of a whole.

  3. fourthnoun

    The fourth gear of an engine.

  4. fourthnoun

    A musical interval which spans four degrees of the diatonic scale, for example C to F (C D E F).

  5. fourthadjective

    The ordinal form of the number four.

  6. Fourthnoun

    The Fourth of July.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Fourthadjective

    The ordinal of four; the first after the third.

    Etymology: from four.

    A third is like the former: filthy hags!
    Why do you shew me this? A fourth? start eye!
    What! will the line stretch out to th’ crack of doom? William Shakespeare.

ChatGPT

  1. fourth

    The term "fourth" is generally defined as the element constituting number four in a series, sequence or scale. It can also refer to one of four equal parts into which something is divided. In music, it's a term describing the harmonious interval produced by a specific ratio of vibrations e.g., perfect fourth. It can also pertain to the position next after third in order, degree, or rank.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fourthadjective

    next in order after the third; the ordinal of four

  2. Fourthadjective

    forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided

  3. Fourthnoun

    one of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third

  4. Fourthnoun

    the interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key

  5. Etymology: [OE. fourthe, ferthe, feorthe, AS. fera, fr. fewer four.]

Wikidata

  1. Fourth

    Fourth is a 1971 studio album by the Canterbury band Soft Machine. The album is also titled Four or 4 in the USA; the numeral "4" is the title as shown on the cover in all countries, but a written-out title appears on the spine and label. This was the group's first all-instrumental album, although their previous album Third had almost completed the band's move in this direction toward instrumental jazz, and a complete abandonment of their original self-presentation as a psychedelic pop group, or progressive rock group. It was also the last of their albums to include drummer and founding member Robert Wyatt who afterwards left to record a solo album, The End of an Ear, and then founded a new group, Matching Mole, whose name was a pun on "Soft Machine" as pronounced in French: "Machine Molle". Like the previous Soft Machine album, this one uses session musicians who were not regarded as full group members, but toured with the band for live performances. In 1999, Soft Machine albums Fourth and Fifth were re-released together on one CD. In 2007, The Fourth was re-released as part of the series Soft Machine Remastered – The CBS Years 1970–1973. The booklets of these re-releases contain liner notes written by Mark Powell from Esoteric Recordings about the history of Soft Machine, their musical development and as one of the first relevant bands in the so-called progressive rock scene.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Fourth' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1784

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Fourth' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1351

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Fourth in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Fourth in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Fourth in a Sentence

  1. Formula One:

    I've come second twice and fourth once. That's not good, especially as Ayrton Senna won it so many times, so I've got to get on it.

  2. Kay Stepper:

    To complete the ability, to get what I would call a robust and reliable model of the environment around the vehicle, you would need to add a fourth sensing technology, in addition to cameras, radar and ultrasonics, now [ you'd have to add ] lidar.

  3. Caroline Bain:

    We think the fourth-quarter (China economic) numbers will pick up as a result of the stimulus we've seen. We're coming to the end of a seasonal lull and it (stimulus) takes time ... to feed through to real demand for metals, whether the Fed hikes tomorrow or not, it's hard to see a massive reaction either way. We've had so much warning this year that the big move in the dollar could be behind us.

  4. Tommy Haas:

    Yeah, lots of emotions. Of course never great to lose in the first round. But happy to have been back, happy to have given it another try, happy to be playing in front of my close family, my kids, had a few chances to win the fourth set with a couple of set points. Who knows what could have happened in the fifth, I would have loved to have played one. Yeah, that's it. Simple as that.

  5. Mohannad Aama:

    Volatility is here to stay for the rest of the fourth quarter because even if the Fed doesn't raise rates next week, it is signaling that there is weakness in the economy.

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